Find something you're passionate about and stay tremendously interested in it. - Julia Child

Travel, we agreed, was a litmus test: if we can make the best of the chaos and serendipity that we'd inevitably meet in transit, then we'd surely be able to sail through the rest of life together just fine. So far, we'd done pretty well.

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.