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

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.

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.

You can't go into the chef's office of any serious kitchen and not see a copy of Larousse. A must-have for professional and home cooks alike.

Smile is a talent, few don't have.

No matter how much you know, your destiny depends on the Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding you display.

Death by misadventure sounds like a hopeful possibility.--Marjorie Branell-Markson

It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy.

There's something about a holiday that isn't all about how much money you spend.

I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write phrases that people can't forget as soon as they read them.

The only way to break the cycle of unwed motherhood, fatherless children, poverty, crime, and welfare is to recognize that welfare causes more problems than it cures.

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.

Content to me is very important, but I like it when [the photograph] is also enigmatic. If you don't know what it is you begin to speculate, and that is what I want.

In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.