I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.

Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.

To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.

Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train.

Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire.

I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.

Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking.

I would probably never have learned to cook.

Pride and entitlement always go with unforgiveness. The longer you hold someone's offense over them, the more likely you are to start feeling arrogant and entitled to your posture toward him.

Grace of service is the heart of belonging.

His voice still had the rasp of desire as he asked, "If I disappear, will you come and find me?

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

Teaching is a wonderful way to learn.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live.

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

Sports is, somehow, a religion.

Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson.