I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck.

It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.

Anything that could ever prevent me from achieving a goal, I put in a box, tape it up, throw it over my shoulder. You aim for a goal and attain it. Then you look to the next one.

Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.

Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.

My personality was always such that I always look straight forward, never behind or to the side.

What makes the food that we do at Alinea so interesting on the outside is that we really don't let ourselves say no to an idea.

I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist.

We all eat two to six times a day. Why? Because we are supposed to, we are programmed to, we want to.

To me, every kitchen appliance is useful and nothing's overrated. When I look at my little espresso machine, I don't see coffee. I see a steaming valve as an opportunity to make amazing creme brulee.

Most smoked salts are made with liquid smoke, which is a condensate, but really, really good smoked salt is literally smoked.

There's no love as real as that of a girl and her best friend.

You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.

But don’t we all deserve a chance before we’re judged?

If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.

I put a lot of faith in dreams. I know that big movie roles and opportunities are going to happen.

Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.

Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

O, it's enough to be on your way. It's enough just to cover ground. It's enough to be moving on. Home: better build it behind your eyes. Carry it in your heart, Safe among your own.

I used to go out with actresses and other female impersonators.