Well, cooking starts with shopping. If the ingredients are not good, you don't do it. Just change your mind and do something else.

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

For me, food is about memories, feelings, emotions, and so is Le Bernardin, and that's why it's not just a restaurant.

In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while theyre cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.

My New Year's resolution is to cut my diet sodas down to two cans a day!

I love garlic, and I use it often.

I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.

If I go to a nightclub, even if the music is good, if the sound system is not, I don't stay.

Obviously California is fantastic in terms of produce, vegetables.

The fish is the star of the plate.

Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.

I'd rather run a gutsy race, pushing all the way and lose, than run a conservative race only for a win.

All the great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ignorant and as indelicate as generals, because they feel secure of impunity.

It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized. It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to. In L.A., I'm just another character actor.

The Universe knows all things and is responding to the vibration that you are sending. When you are sending your vibration on purpose, you are orchestrating what the Universe is aligning for you.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

As anger is a passion, it is to be ruled; as it is a weak passion, he is weak who rules it not.

He had never even glimpsed her.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

I think the one thing about me is I'm a fairly demanding guy, and I give a great deal of myself, and I expect that in return.