I prefer a poet or an author to a philosopher.

Why is that?

Well they have philosophical thoughts, but you can grasp them, they don’t go over your head, well that stuff goes over my head, put it that way, most of it. Ive got some philosophical sayings I like that I write in my cook book. They're picked and chosen very carefully

Well like what?

Oh like um, lets see wait a minute, wait a minute, I got a favorite, by Heine, a German philosopher, um, I’ll have to get my cookbook out, I can’t remember it. Can you wait a minute? It’s right here. Ah ha. I found it. Uh. Wait a minute. Oh here’s one I like, “Life is war, war is hell and hell is empty”

Yeah I like that one too.

And another one is “The guilty flee when no man pursueth, but the innocent are as brave as a lion”

Did you find the Heine poem in there?

It’s here. It’s here somewhere. It must be in the front. Oh. “Lo”, there’s Heine, Heinrich, no, Heine “Poem to Morphine” “Lo, sleep is good, better is death, in sooth, the best of all were never to be born.” Now that I understand.

And what do you understand that to mean?

Well just like he said “the best of all were never to be born” speaks for itself.