When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.

...in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ...it is never too late to find out how to do it.

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.

Life is so endlessly delicious

Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

She was a great cook, but she cooked more for herself than for other people, not because she was hungry but because she was comforted by the rituals of the kitchen.

Plain fresh bread, its crust shatteringly crisp. Sweet cold butter. There is magic in the way they come together in your mouth to make a single perfect bite.