Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.

I’m all about making money. It’s the greatest thing, because it means you get money to spend.

Fernand Point's philosophy instilled what cuisine is all about: generosity and hugeness of heart.

My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?

It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients.

Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right.

Rain may cleanse the Earth, but it doesn't wash away our tears.

Wow, that was an expensive looking explosion! I can't believe we had that in the budget.

God creates the animals man creates himself.

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

Do not put this product in a big vat and drop rats into it from a cat-walk.

[Stand-up] might be ballsy, but I'd rather not be an actor. Actors are tools.

I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.

When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.

I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph.