"I think my family, especially having three teenage sons, keeps my cooking at home grounded and very approachable. I'm definitely not making spumas in my kitchen, that's for sure!"

“People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it.”

“To read Wilson.. is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.”

Source : 1985 Of Edmund Wilson. In the New York Times, 28 Jul, reviewing David Castronovo Edmund Wilson (1984).

“Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility.”

“When engaged in safe occupations, and living in healthy countries, men are much more apt to be frugal, than in unhealthy, or hazardous occupations, and in climates pernicious to human life. Sailors and soldiers are prodigals. . . . War and pestilence have always waste and luxury, among the other evils that follow in their train.”

Source : John Rae (1834). “Statement of Some New Principles on the Subject of Political Economy: Exposing the Fallacies of the System of Free Trade, and of Some Other Doctrines Maintained in the "Wealth of Nations."”, p.123

“I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.”

“It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Jonathan Franzen, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

“As time goes on you are given responsibility and other things to deal with. You become a husband and a father and there's another shirt of stuff.”

Source : "Interview with Mike Ness of Social Distortion". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds.”

Source : Art of Preserving Health