You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.

In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.

I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or that good and bad did not exist. I believe passionately in the need to distinguish between right and wrong and am somewhat confounded by being told I need God, Jesus or a clergyman to help me to do so.

People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.

If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy.

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

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.