"I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all."

"I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends that's the good stuff in life."

"There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself."

"I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else."

"It is a profound truth that true knowledge is found not in possessing answers, but in continually asking the right questions."

"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury."

"She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong."

"Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying."