A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them but as I wrote my own I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have and take for granted: hot showers enough food friends routines.

I grew up playing music and enjoying good food friends and family in my own backyard.

My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you're in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things like entertaining at home.

My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.

This June I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen Colorado. For many years my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event for the past seven years my daughter Claudine has been my cooking partner on stage.

When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004 I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.

I say: If you don't know how to cook I'm sure you have at least one friend who knows how to cook. Well call that friend and say 'Can I come next time and can I bring some food and can I come an hour or two hours ahead and watch you and help you?'

Food is not your best friend or enemy.

The magazine the daytime show we've always tried to write affordable accessible. Those are key words for us and I do mean us a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable friendly food that helps families eat better for less.

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

I used food as a coping mechanism for many many years and it was my best friend for a long time.

I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends good food and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food sleep friends love everything.

When I eat with my friends it is a moment of real pleasure when I really enjoy my life.

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve I might as well starve where the food is good.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

If you really want to make a friend go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

My fitness trainer's English my physio's English some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all.

The more anxious isolated and time-deprived we are the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family friends and neighbors we become less likely to call on them for help and they on us.