Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.

You can't build a future if you don't have a past.

Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery.

Through writing, one experiences something different to what one experiences with the five senses one has because language is a different metier.

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

I like making things. I enjoy putting words and images on a blank space. There should be joy in the writing itself because parts of it are so challenging and lonesome. I take great pleasure in reading, researching, and interviewing. I enjoy forming my sentences and revising them to make them clean.