I always say to people that working full time and being a mom is probably the hardest job, because as a mom you think about your child 24/7.

Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.

I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.

The holidays stress people out so much. I suggest you keep it simple and try to have as much fun as you can.

Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body; it's truly love.

I'm into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.

When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.

My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

Opportunities present themselves and you have to enjoy the ride. All of us get so worried about the next step that we don't enjoy the moment we're in right now.

You just need a little perspective. Warmed chocolate can give you that.

Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.

Two creative spirits in a relationship, I don't think that's the best way to go.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

Anybody can make a movie, if you have the will. The digital revolution has made it very inexpensive to make a film. Anybody who wants to can do it.

Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.

Europe was founded as a community bound together by solidarity.

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.

And I identify too closely with my reading, with my writing.

A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.