“There is no sight more appealing on this planet than a person actually preparing food for the ones they love.”

“There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.”

“One can feel an attraction towards a particular person. But to release that fount of sorrow, that sense of the irreparable, those agonies which prepare the way for love, there must be -- and this is perhaps, more than a person, the actual object which our passion seeks so anxiously to embrace -- the risk of an impossibility.”

“A book is like a person, and one's reaction to a person invariably has more to do with one's own personality and life experience than with the actual person herself.”

“He has one of the worst personalities. Actually, you can’t call it a personality, since he acts more like an animal than a person.”

“Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.”