Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire.

Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.

To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.

Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train.

I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.

Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking.

I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.

I would probably never have learned to cook.

Hold each moment you create on your sacred journey close to your heart, for that is the location where your memory will be deposited.

There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching.

What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on.

I've learned great lessons from my parents for things on the court and off. I really look up to them.

The gospel costs nothing but it demands everything.

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.

For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly.

I've been loving music all my life.

When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.