Paul Prudhomme

I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.

We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.

I'm a professional cook. I've worked with other cooks from all over the world, but my family is not that way - they're always lived within 25 miles of my hometown!

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.