We're in a world that is run by accountants and I think that it's sad in many ways.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

Gastronomy is the greatest form of therapy that anyone can be exposed to.

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.

At the end of the day it's just food, isn't it? Just food.

I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

Don't dress for others, dress for yourself. Clothes should be an extension of what you represent and what you feel inside.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Her hair was pulled back so severely, it would have won approval from the Spanish Inquisition as a method of torture.

Idleness and solitude led to these dramatics: an ordinary turd indulging himself as the chief of sinners.

Let the pain & suffering of all that appears to be lost, be soothed, healed & comforted.

Being innovative is more important than any specific innovation. Innovativeness is a way of thinking.

Never travel by sea when you can go by land.

My favorite thing to steal is a kiss. You can get arrested for it but they can't force you to give it back.

I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.

How about we just see where life takes us for awhile?

The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.