In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

A party without cake is really just a meeting.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

People who love to eat are always the best people.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.

It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted.

Conscience is the eye that watches an honest man, and the guide that keeps his actions even in secret. Hence, other men's views takes a secondary position.

One of the strangest things is the act of creation.You are faced with a blank slate—a page, a canvas, a block of stone or wood, a silent musical instr

His emotions are not for men, they are for his vision.

People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer.

The universe will start to rearrange itself to make it happen for you.

I think the exercise of trying to figure out how to simplify concepts has been incredibly helpful to me over the last 13 years of teaching and I hope my students have benefited from it.

He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

The only bad studio is the unused one.

I never set out to do the things I'm doing now.