Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey?

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class.

The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one.

How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.

All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't

CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!

Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable moral superiority about it.

Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.

I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.

The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.

You have a great talent and a great role in the world.

And how do you know that these fine begonias are not of equal importance?

I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.

Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.

What is true, though, is now we've got a bunch of videos that whatever side of the issue you're on, raises the temperature on these issues and makes people really focused .

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

I worry that's what people are going to think about me if they kind of go backwards. But if that didn't happen to you, I'll feel better.

Under no circumstances should you play fast if you have a winning position. Forget the clock, use all your time and make good moves.

We have to truly become a united people of the United States of America, and divisiveness cannot make that happen.

They told me I gave the best milk mustache of anybody.