What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

I love children --- especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.