They want to go to the bar and eat a few snacks, have a couple of cocktails or glasses of wine, and go home. People don't sit down at the table and have a whole three or four courses.

I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them properly.

Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way.

My favorite thing is Spaghetti with white clam sauce anywhere on the Amalfi Coast or the Tuscan Coast.

Spices are very hot, very hip. I love spices. I've always loved the Mediterranean flavors.

We have a training period; we have certain guidelines and structure. You can't hire talented people and stifle them. That's not the way it works anymore.

It's wild how chefs have become like rock stars.

Even if you are not aware of it, there are moments when you are receiving hints, a nudge, or support from the other side.

How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?

The present moment is all you ever have.

Erich Mendelsohn's drawings are expressive and beautiful. If he'd had the computers we have now, everything I've done he would have done before me. I would have had to figure out something else.

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home.

I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.

Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.