I can't stay friends with anyone who doesn't have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it right into the kitchen, too. They have a zest for life; the excitement of living. All of the great eaters I've known are also men of great wit.

When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.

Smoked salmon is for dinner. Belly lox is for breakfast. Don't get that mixed up.

You only live once, except for Shirley MacLaine.

I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.