I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

A party without cake is really just a meeting.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

People who love to eat are always the best people.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

Alles wat ik van het leven weet maakte ik me buiten de muren van de school eigen, en zodra ik me binnen die muren bevond leek het of ik achterwaarts leefde.

Patience is the food of understanding.

You can rewrite your personal story!

Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.

Fair maid, white and red, Comb me smooth, and stroke my head; And every hair a sheave shall be, And every sheave a golden tree.

There's no such thing as other people's children.

For we seldom admire the wit, when we dislike the man.

Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.

True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.

I feel my greatest work is yet to come.