'When members of the same family cannot sit down and eat together, the family is in trouble.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom

Hall is a good Christian boy, never any trouble, ... I've known the whole family for years. I'm shocked, completely shocked. I just don't know what's going to happen. These are good people.

The Renaissance scholar Michel de Montaigne said, 'there is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom,' ... Drama, comedy and tragedy all have their roots in the compelling theatre of life that is closest to us all our relationships with those tied to us by blood.

The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I'm reluctant to say anything. If I say I developed 50 different shapes from Mississippian tumuli, that doesn't mean they're copies of tumuli - I'm not ripping off those shapes.

Some of the recipes came from my family, or I just figured it out from how my family made things. But then I had to get the recipes together. I had to learn to use a computer and I got together recipes from all over. I'd have written them on matchbooks or while I was at the hairdresser's.