But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; they make the best fast food hamburgers around.

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.

I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

I'm trained as a teacher that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.

I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny.

Be able to laugh at difficulties.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

I have an authority problem.

My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.

I am very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the collectors that are possessive, not me, not me.

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.

Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan's landing places, especially the eye and the ear.