For me, food is about memories, feelings, emotions, and so is Le Bernardin, and that's why it's not just a restaurant.

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while theyre cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.

My New Year's resolution is to cut my diet sodas down to two cans a day!

I love garlic, and I use it often.

I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.

If I go to a nightclub, even if the music is good, if the sound system is not, I don't stay.

Obviously California is fantastic in terms of produce, vegetables.

Well, cooking starts with shopping. If the ingredients are not good, you don't do it. Just change your mind and do something else.

The fish is the star of the plate.

I love you, in my mind where my thoughts reside, in my heart where my emotions live, and in my soul where my dreams are born. I love you.

The mind has a powerful way of attracting things that are in harmony with it, good and bad.

There's a world of difference between, "Look at this mess you made!" and "I don't like to see food on the floor!

Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.

I got a job at an amusement park. I like to make the rides more terrifying by throwing a couple of screws onto the seats.

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else.

I love being part of the team.

Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time.

I'm actually a lot happier because I work as a teacher; more than just a capitalist making money for myself.

A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds.