Ruth Reichl

People are so used to eating terrible pancakes, no matter how you mess up, they're going to be great. And if you make fresh orange juice, they'll be over the moon.

You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know about life.

To me, cooking is man's natural activity. But I think writing is really hard. Certainly writing fiction is the hardest thing I've ever done.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.