Clean plates don't lie.

When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.

Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.

If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or the most profitable, you're just not seeing the big picture.

I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.

We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.

It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

I said, 'Don, what's sustainable about feeding chicken to fish?'

I never lose sight of the whole. An impeccable dress is made to be lived in, to be torn, wet, stained, crumpled.

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

Music should always be an adventure.

Some things need to be believed to be seen.

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met.

I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.

The path is revealed in the treading.

Socialism as I understand it is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.