If you want a friend, feed any animal.
I'm always astonished to see how badly people can behave when they think no one is noticing.
I like cream cheese in just about anything.
When I started to write culinary mysteries, I did it because nobody was doing it anymore.
After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime.
I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker. '
One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California. . . If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook.
Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is. . . a normal and healthy sentiment.
There's a notion of art in this country that you have to be nutty or special or "called" in order to be an artist. I believe the questions everyone should ask themselves are, "Do you want to do it? Are you willing to do it poorly? Are you willing to do the work of doing it? Are you willing to persist when everybody tells you it's silly?" If you're willing to do that, then you can do it.
If you don't have a dream as an artist, you shouldn't be an artist, because you should be working towards something and trying to reach that always, whatever that is.
Donald Trump reflects a distorted view of the American people and what this country is all about.