You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary.

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

Push your limit to the absolute extreme.

Books are all the dreams we would most like to have and like dreams they have the power to change consciousness.

Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

I am about to get involved with the biggest cancer hospital in Norway. They are building a fitness center to work with patients. I will be a consultant.

From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really in it, are we?

I dont think Sugar Man is a music doc any more than The Social Network is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.

Skills are expensive in Africa, best people are on American salaries.

Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple.