Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.

It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.

Anything that could ever prevent me from achieving a goal, I put in a box, tape it up, throw it over my shoulder. You aim for a goal and attain it. Then you look to the next one.

Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.

My personality was always such that I always look straight forward, never behind or to the side.

What makes the food that we do at Alinea so interesting on the outside is that we really don't let ourselves say no to an idea.

I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist.

We all eat two to six times a day. Why? Because we are supposed to, we are programmed to, we want to.

To me, every kitchen appliance is useful and nothing's overrated. When I look at my little espresso machine, I don't see coffee. I see a steaming valve as an opportunity to make amazing creme brulee.

Most smoked salts are made with liquid smoke, which is a condensate, but really, really good smoked salt is literally smoked.

Over the years, Céline Labaune has been constantly seeking to source the highest quality truffles; her diligence and expertise truly set her apart.

That you were able to walk away, gives me my answer as plain as day.

The difference between the word fiend and friend is merely one letter. I could easily be the latter. If you knew me better...

Our Thoughts Determine Our Happiness High above hate I dwell 0 storms! Farewell.

I was trying to get out of the night clubs and was thinking maybe I'll go to the colleges now; that's where you can speak your mind.

Women writers lift themselves up from the depths; as they rise, each brings with her what she is able to carry.

You ain't seen nothing yet, and the best is yet to come.

The media ignores what is really going on.

Alice! You know I love you like a sister!" "Words." she growled.

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.