If you go off the edge, it's not cooking anymore, so you have to push it to the limit... What are the limits?

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.

Food is about being happy - at a table, thats probably where we spend most of our happiest hours.

I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible.

If you think well, you cook well.

I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.

Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.

I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.

You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.

Our kitchen is a kitchen that makes food designed to be tasted with the five senses and it requires concentration to appreciate all that we want to express.

You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

She'll let you put her in her place. But she won't stand for anything worse than first.

Clearly, being in love makes you an idiot, " he muttered...

I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble.

Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.

It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.

The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much.

Whether you have sight or not, I see the future in your eyes." -Beth

I feel like 'embattled' or 'disgraced' will always follow my name. It's like that black football player who recently came out.

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

We are the creators of our universe.