I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

All that means is that it wasn't personal to you. But it was personal to me.

Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.

I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.

What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing! It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles.

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.