Larousse has a place of honor on every cookbook shelf in America.

I can keep learning about all the different technologies. It's my most telling characteristic. I'm interested in trying anything new.

You should never accept what can be offered to you if you feel it can be improved.

As with all my new pets, I gently bit each kitten on the face. This is how I let my animals know that I am now their mother.

I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I’m not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at — just walking around Williamsburg, for example — is a great opportunity for ideas. I’ve been here before, I’ve seen things before, but now my eye gets keener and keener. So I can pick up little things: just the pattern of a brick walk, or the way they’ve attached a light to a house.

Write the book you'd want to read.

Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.