Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. -W. C. Fields

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A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.

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Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken. ― M.F.K. Fisher

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Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. ― Ruth Reichl

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I will not move my army without onions.

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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch. ― Orson Welles

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When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. ― Dom Helder Camara

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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. ― Hippocrates

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Nothing but water -- an ever-moving swell; nothing but waves, swiftly forming and instantly dying; nothing but depths; dark, fathomless depths; and nothing but sky, scudding white clouds, puffy and intangible. This was the living world, nothing besides, nothing else but sea. No winter or summer, no hills or ravines.

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