Take Notes. Everything Is Copy.

What I Love About Cooking Is That After A Hard Day, There Is Something Comforting About The Fact That If You Melt Butter And Add Flour And Then Hot Stock, It Will Get Thick!

Why Do People Write Books That Say It's Better To Be Older Than To Be Younger? It's Not Better. Even If You Have All Your Marbles, You're Constantly Reaching For The Name Of The Person You Met The Day Before Yesterday.

I Actually Believe In Denial.

Eat Every Meal As If It's Your Last; When The Last One Comes, You Probably Won't Be Very Hungry.

A Lot Of College Graduates Approach Me About Becoming Screenwriters. I Tell Them, 'do Not Become A Screenwriter, Become A Journalist,' Because Journalists Go Into Worlds That Are Not Their Own. Kids Who Go To Hollywood Write Coming-of-age Stories For Their First Scripts, About What Happened To Them When They Were Sixteen. Then They Write The Summer Camp Script. At The Age Of Twenty-three They Haven't Produced Anything, And That's The End Of The Career.