Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

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.

Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.

The musical is amazing. i mean,i don't throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009

Any time is the time to make a poem.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

You've got to think outside the box. If you can't, that's going to put you behind the power curve in a big way.

If you find life on Europa [Jupiter's moon], like, what would you call it? Would it be, like, Europeans?

I'm a little less naive when it comes to relationships.

Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.

Liberals hate corporations, folks. Corporations are not people.

I am Jewish and proud of this culturally and ethnically - the ways in which I was born this way and am happy with whom I am.