"I love Tumblr, I love it, it's like collaging and collecting images, it's such a fun thing to do, it's something that's really therapeutic and I don't really know why."

“Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.”

“I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.”

“It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to realize something I always knew was simmering underneath.”

“I've always just worked and tried to do as good a job as possible so that the people who are watching me took notice. That's what's helped me be successful today.”

“Everything is about balance. You can't work, work, work, work without any play.”

“Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.”

“I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.”

Source : Interview with Phil Hogan, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2007.

“The rule I use is, If it doesn't come out of the ground looking the way it looks when you eat it, be careful.”