I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them.

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.

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

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.

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

It is rooted deep in your bones

And sometimes, even if everything seems unreala strange force will appeardragging you back the 'so called' real.

Sometimes you get caught up living something that's not true. The people around you, the people you're involved with, are not the right people.

There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.

I think sometimes the very reason we go through something is so that we can be empathetic with another person later on.

... the poem reminds us of what we ourselves know, but did not know we knew; reminds us, above all, of what we are.

Miami’s like paradise. And I think the beaches are topless. So we’re gonna spend a lot of time at the beach.

If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would no longer be wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.

I don't cook, so my favorite dish to prepare is something on the takeout menu.