Bread Street Kitchen is a big operation, a unique beast, and it needs bedding in.

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.

Drugs have destroyed many people. But wrong government policies have destroyed many more.

People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!

A threat is a promise followed by a consequence.

I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.

In your lifetime, at what point do you stop being an idiot? I'm 24. Enough is enough!

The crowds at Flushing Meadow are about as impartial as a Nuremberg Rally.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

My donors have always tended to do much better than expected.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

Survey 2001: Men who never married, never had a child, worked full time and were college educated earn only 85% of what women with the same criteria earn.