I used to sleep with the phone right by my pillow but I'm getting better. Now it sits on the table a few feet away.

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.

Food is ever-changing and ever moving forward and getting more and more complex.

Creative risks will always outweigh technical mistakes.

Give yourself enough time to really learn how to cook.

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

The better the ingredients, the more farmers I can buy from, the closer I feel to the food I want to make that represents what I care about as a chef.

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.

How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?

A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it's an art form or whether it's just in life, it comes off---you don't have anything to prove; you can just be who you are.

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that.

To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for.

There is Indian time and white man's time. Indian time means never looking at the clock. ... There is not even a word for time in our language.

The most dangerous lechers and creeps are not drunks wearing rags on the street, but respectable men wearing hairspray, pinstripes, and wedding rings who lurk in the halls of power.

How you all will change the work after I am gone. If I came back a hundred years from now, I just wonder if I would even recognize it.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.