Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible.

I've always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving.

It wasn't the traditional cooking most people do. For me, as a young chef, Thanksgiving meant going to work in the kitchen at places like Gotham, JoJo and Jean-Georges.

The deeds of darkness will be illuminated by the sun

Reef aquariums are definitely the pinnacle of the hobby.

Different strokes for different folks.

When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?

One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up

Next time you see an ant, remember: winter is coming! The best time to prepare for tomorrow is today.

I never did think I had brain damage.

As for the fashion world, the one thing I respect is its shallowness: it's so deep - it's so serious. It can be hard to get that kind of shallowness because of its depth and seriousness.

Hard rain falls in every season. Sometimes it can beat you down; you have to try to learn how to take sustenance from it to grow.

A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.