“Meaning is not what happens, but what you do with what happens.”

“To trust in your own aliveness, in your own ability to sustain and be sustained - there are times when there is no greater act of defiance.”

“When I visit someplace new my favorite thing to do is eat...and walk, preferable to a place where I can eat some more.”

“Food—like art, like music— brings people together, it’s true. It begins, though, with a private experience, a single person stirred, moved, and wanting company in that altered stated. So we say, “Y...”

“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

“I love you like a fat kid loves cake!”

“Hard work should be rewarded by good food.”

“Neapolitans are extremely empathetic, whereas the typical northern attitude is more about not showing or sharing your feelings.”