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

“Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares”

“The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.”

“Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.”

“You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.”

“I didn't understand for a long time, but what attracted me to MtAoFC [Mastering the Art of French Cooking] was the deeply buried aroma of hope and discovery of fulfillment in it. I thought I was using the Book to learn to cook French food, but really I was learning to sniff out the secret doors of possibility.”