America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

For me, food is about memories, feelings, emotions, and so is Le Bernardin, and that's why it's not just a restaurant.

In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while theyre cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.

My New Year's resolution is to cut my diet sodas down to two cans a day!

I love garlic, and I use it often.

I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.

If I go to a nightclub, even if the music is good, if the sound system is not, I don't stay.

Obviously California is fantastic in terms of produce, vegetables.

Well, cooking starts with shopping. If the ingredients are not good, you don't do it. Just change your mind and do something else.

The fish is the star of the plate.

Parvus denied that universal suffrage was an end to itself since the middle class would always find ways to manipulate the electoral system. Freedom could not be begged for: it had to be won.

I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.

No one can keep from aging, but there is no need to grow old.

I went with an exorcist for a bit. I just want to know really practical things, like how do you hold someone possessed by the devil.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes

To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone.

I don't think it had a name when we started. If punk has any roots, Dada is part of it. And we saw ourselves as part of a kind of Dada tradition.

You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.