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!

There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you're free of it. And you're not, of course; you've just managed to set it down on paper, that's all.

Eat every meal as if it's your last; when the last one comes, you probably won't be very hungry.

Having been married so many times, I know that one of the few things I am an expert in is falling in love.

American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.

I cannot understand any woman's wanting to be the first woman to do anything. ... It is a devastating burden and I could not take it, could not be a pioneer, a Symbol of Something Greater.