People, you have six senses! The last one is common! Use it!

A kitchen is a good place to be, almost always the best place in the house.

I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.

Recipes are not assembly manuals. Recipes are guides and suggestions for a process that is infinitely nuanced. Recipes are sheet music.

Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare indeed.

We better take care of the earth or we're gonna have shitty food, and having shitty food is no fun.

Sometimes when you're surrounded by dirt...you're a better witness for what's beautiful.

There are more hidden spaces in a city, more hidden lives and hidden emptinesses, and more darkened windows where shadow people pass fleetingly in and out of sight.

You have to learn to recognize your own depths.

Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?

She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.

To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.

Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic