There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.

People are the most difficult thing in the world to change

I’m not a bad person. I haven’t killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don’t kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?

There’s a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt.

How does fear become so powerful? We can’t see it. We can’t touch it, yet it gets its claws in us and begins to control us. Sigh. I hate feeling afraid, and I hate, hate, HATE feeling out of control.

Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

The more your mind is restful, the more you're capable of dynamic activity.

That's not precisely what I had in mind." Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.

We opened El Bulli; there were no secrets there. The recipes were not secret. Anybody who came, the recipes were there for them. This was unthinkable then.

We've got a lot of love here, and for me that's what family is all about.

The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives.

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.

Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.