Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.

I’m all about making money. It’s the greatest thing, because it means you get money to spend.

Fernand Point's philosophy instilled what cuisine is all about: generosity and hugeness of heart.

My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?

It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients.

Love is the magician of the universe. It creates everything out of nothing.

The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.

Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

I'd rather live forever in Heaven than a place where there's terrorism and hate.

Don’t accept the world as it is. Dream of what the world could be - and then help make it happen.

Back in Khufu's day I knew a magician who parted the Nile just so he could climb to the bottom and retrieve a girl's necklace. Then there was that Israelite fellow, Mickey." "Moses?" "Yeah, him.

The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.

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