Food is about being happy - at a table, thats probably where we spend most of our happiest hours.

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.

I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible.

If you think well, you cook well.

I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.

Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.

I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.

You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.

Our kitchen is a kitchen that makes food designed to be tasted with the five senses and it requires concentration to appreciate all that we want to express.

You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

By changing—we become what we always wanted to be.

An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?

As long as I can reach somebody, then I feel like I'm doing my job.

Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.

Unrelated doesn't necessarily mean unrelated. Allow ideas to dwell with one another.

Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.

Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport.

I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it

Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.