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

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.

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?

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

Real dishes break. That's how you know they're real.

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.

In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.

Never give up! If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses, Is the stout watchword of "Never give up."

Society does not love its unmaskers.

The single most important route of success is persistence - never, ever give up!

Truth is more than a mental exercise.

When grace changes the heart, submission out of fear changes to submission out of love, and true humility is born.

Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.