Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.

Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men

Abraham Lincoln

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

Oscar Wilde

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

George Crumb

Life is a game, play it.

Mother Theresa

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Honore de Balzac

Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.

Tomas Borge

The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

Virginia Woolf

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Robert S. Hillyer

Now I'm way into suits that I can put on whether I took a shower or not, and wear barefoot and paint my toes black or whatever color the suit is. It's very cool to wear suits like that. Roll up the sleeves and just say yee-haw.

Steven Tyler

In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

Oscar Wilde

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

Alex Kapranos