The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class.

The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one.

How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.

All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't

CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!

Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable moral superiority about it.

Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.

Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey?

I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.

Before you talk to the world, talk to yourself. And, before you listen to the world, listen to yourself.

Cheap people often are not very happy because they love money more than they love their families

Oh how quickly the world's glory passes away.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary.

I have a record that I'm so very, very proud of, and no campaign is going to take that away.

The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.

When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a world that feels like risk and adventure.

Even in rapture, part of the mind watches.

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.