I begin my day online and end my day online. I like to prepare myself for the next day and have a sense of closure before I go to bed.

Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty and have a mysterious refinement when cooked or roasted over sea salt.

Determine who you are and what your brand is, and what youre not. The rest of it is just a lot of noise.

My mother's blueberry pie from scratch was amazing. I still make it today.

The most important things in life happen over conversations while eating.

I don't enjoy eating humble pie.

I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.

I love hospitality, and I love cooking. The kitchen is where I feel most at ease and where I feel most like myself.

I'll transform anything as long as it's edible.

The worst day is just that I did not enter the culinary world sooner. And the best day was seeing the reaction of my one year old daughter when she tasted her first crisp apple!

A plate of food has to have balance. For example, a mild fish like skate mustnt be overwhelmed by the side dishes. They should have personality and color, but they also have to be subtle.

If you're going to be a narcissistic schmuck, kid, don't bother studying Faulkner. Go straight to Brett Easton Ellis. He's the role model you need.

She focused on that nothingness, imagined it as ink spilling over everything she could possibly think or feel.

The cards always look different when it's your turn to play them; loaded with subtly different possibilities.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

I want to draw subjects that seem very boring and everyday... Stuff that would be normal except for one thing. Or two things. Or stuff that's undeniably weird.

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Oh, it's not really gambling when you never lose.

Good question to ask yourself: How would the person I would like to be do what I'm about to do?

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

Ambition is not a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.