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

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.

Eating is one of the most important aspects of living. I like indulging. I like to eat one food at a time, to savor each individual thing.

It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world.

The strength of the spirit sustains the soul.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?

Many hybrid owners realize how sharply fuel efficiency goes down over 55 mph because they get instant mileage feedback.

The network is the computer.

I'm just one of those people that if I sit down to watch a horror film, I put my hands over my face and I cry a lot and I don't see half of the film because I'm too upset.

Nature abhors the old.

Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.

Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.