For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.

Food is about being happy - at a table, thats probably where we spend most of our happiest hours.

I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible.

If you think well, you cook well.

I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.

Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.

I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.

You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.

Our kitchen is a kitchen that makes food designed to be tasted with the five senses and it requires concentration to appreciate all that we want to express.

You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

It's funny how you can know a person, think of him as your closest friend, and still never gain access to the secret chambers in his heart.

The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,

I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what it sounded like.

History has taught us that people who live to serve humanity selflessly are the ones who live forever. Those who divorce themselves from service to humanity are forgotten even before their death.

It is healthier in any case to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.

For 'Fright Night, ' we really want to convey the fun attitude of the movie and show the intensity of Colin Farrell as a predator. He's not a brooding vampire - he's dark and dangerous.

I used to be an atheist until I realized that I was God.

To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome.

I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.

I believe in analysis and not forecasting.