Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

Let's face it: part of being a grownup is that every day you have to choose between going out at night or staying home, and it is one of life's unhappy truths that there is not enough time to do both.

I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.

You can never have too much butter - that is my belief. If I have a religion, that's it.

That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

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!