You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy.