A kaiseki meal is like that, very small courses over a long period of time.

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.

Success is measured by the memories you create.

It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.

A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide.

Respect for food is respect for life, for who we are and what we do.

For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.

You have to be driven. You have to be focused. You have to be aware.

People who praise a leader even when he is doing the wrong things are the main reasons why his fall is near.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

One of my father's RULES FOR LIFE was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this, " he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?

I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.

A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.

I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.

I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality, but it also reflects our psychic reality.

Content-based marketing gets repeated in social media and increases word-of-mouth mentions; it's the best way to gather buzz about a product.

Every gift of God is to be enjoyed as from God and not like a God.