The trick, which requires the combined skills of a tightrope walker and a cordon bleu chef frying a plain egg, is to take your [pr...eteen] daughter seriously without taking everything she says and does every minute seriously.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is nothing here [Civita Vecchia] to see. They have not even a cathedral, with eleven tons of solid silver archbishops in the... back room; and they do not show you any moldy buildings that are seven thousand years old; nor any smoke-dried old fire-screens which are chef d'oeuvres of Rubens or Simpson, or Titian or Ferguson, or any of those parties; and they haven't any bottled fragments of saints, and not even a nail from the true cross. We are going to Rome. There is nothing to see here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I tell people all the time, you have to be in love with that pot. You have to put all your love in that pot. If you're in a hurry,... just eat your sandwich and go. Don't even start cooking, because you can't do anything well in a hurry. I love food. I love serving people. I love satisfying people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »