I don't do social events, I don't do award ceremonies, I don't do charity dinners. I live my life off-radar.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

Gastronomy is the greatest form of therapy that anyone can be exposed to.

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.

At the end of the day it's just food, isn't it? Just food.

I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

Don't dress for others, dress for yourself. Clothes should be an extension of what you represent and what you feel inside.

...nobody ever takes from the desert anything but aridity and monsters...

Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

Immortality Device has been tested and researched by medical researchers all over the world from time to time. They email me and told me what they found. I post their results sometimes on my site.

See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.

One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects

...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.

The greatest opportunities today are to go into business for yourself as an entrepreneur.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.