In normal life, "simplicity" is synonymous with "easy to do, " but when a chef uses the word, it means "takes a lifetime to learn.

Real secrets mean more than hiding that card game from you daddy. Real secrets can be hurtful. Make people do bad things.

I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant.

I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.

The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

I'm a little drunk on you, and high on summertime.

Losing honour or losing everything, it is all the same thing in the realm of the good people.

When love takes you by the hand and leaves you better, that is home. That's the place to stake your claim and build your life.

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.