Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.

Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.

Taste, like identity, has value only when there are differences.

The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.

I believe that he who sows utopia will reap reality.

Any gastronome who is not an environmentalist is stupid, and any environmentalist who is not a gastronome is sad.

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.

No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.

I'm a big health-food freak and a vegetarian devotee.

I want to make guys put the ball in play. If I give up ten hits, then I give up ten hits. But I want to work on making them earn it.

What we think about God-what we think God is like-will determine the relationship we have with God.

I think it's good to tell the fans "this movie's going to lead to that, and that will lead to..."

I've been through a lot of stuff.

Education will open doors where none seem to exist.

The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it.