Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.

Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.

A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.