If everybody that had two cars had a Prius instead of an SUV, we wouldn't be in the Middle East right now.

Well, she's so alive, Julia Child. And Margaret is so - is so designed. She's so intent upon making her point. That's the most important thing, is that she win the argument, and there is nothing that stands in the way of that train, you know. But Julia's just alive in front of you. That's part of why people loved her. They lived it with her. They breathed it with her. And the mistakes were all part of it.

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

I've been making a lot of pasta. It's easy. There are unusual tastes that you can combine. I cook because my kids like a certain kind of thing and then they want it over and over.

I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.