America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad - based on huge portions and fast food. Let's stop with the excuses and start creating something better.

Contemporary ramen is totally different than what most Americans think ramen should be. Ramen is not one thing; there are many, many different types.

We're hoping to succeed; we're okay with failure. We just don't want to land in between.

Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.

Rage or fear... It oscillates. Rage I need to motivate me to try things that I can't ordinarily do - as I'm a lazy man. Fear - to keep pushing harder so we don't lose what we've accomplished.

Lifes too short to just breeze on by.

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

To eat well, I always disagree with critics who say that all restaurants should be fine dining. You can get a Michelin star if you serve the best hamburger in the world.

I find that there are a lot of similarities between French and Japanese food. I think they're two countries that have really systemized their cuisine and codified it.

I constantly think I'm a fraud, that this success is not warranted or justified.

The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out. There's so much more competition. You can do an event every week and not cook at all.

I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.

When you juice books from a library you are taking the history and imagination that has accumulated over so many years there.

We can’t all be comedians, some people have to do the laughing.

Don't believe a man will give you the world if he doesn't even buy you flowers.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles one would hardly see anybody.

I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.

I'm proud of the scars in my soul. They remind me that I have an intense life.

Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power.

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.