"Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self."

“A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don't have to be the one at fault to be the one who's sorry.”

“I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.”

“I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.”

“If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.”

Source : Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.186, Lulu.com

“I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook.”

Source : "My favourite table" by Chloe Diski, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2002.

“Check out the produce bin in your fridge or your cabinet before you buy more. When you see something on the verge of going bad, freeze it, turn it into a sauce, make jam.”

Source : "How ugly food can end hunger". Interview with Lauren Lee-Johnson, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2015.

“So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.”

Source : "New Zealand's Neil Finn: 'I'm a lifer" By Ayesha Lawrence, www.cnn.com. March 4, 2004.

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”

Source : "The Age of Louis XIV". Book by Voltaire, 1751.