How simple it could be! The answer to the problem of being anything was being it. How admirable Teddy was! From the ashes of his broken childhood he had formed a decision to be a...

Dinner alone is one of life’s pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.

To be effortlessly yourself is a blessing, an ambrosia. It is like a few tiny little puffs of opium which lift you ever so slightly off the hard surface of the world.

At a certain point, memory begins to be a burden.

She said that my good qualities were my bad qualities — this I have come to realize is true of everyone. On the one hand, I was game, eager and perfectly ready to see what...

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.