I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

For me, food is about memories, feelings, emotions, and so is Le Bernardin, and that's why it's not just a restaurant.

In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while theyre cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.

My New Year's resolution is to cut my diet sodas down to two cans a day!

I love garlic, and I use it often.

If I go to a nightclub, even if the music is good, if the sound system is not, I don't stay.

Obviously California is fantastic in terms of produce, vegetables.

Well, cooking starts with shopping. If the ingredients are not good, you don't do it. Just change your mind and do something else.

The fish is the star of the plate.

Live is good!

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.

Pure motives do not insure perfect results.

I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.

A bilingual marriage, by the way, is a great way to stay together for longer than you normally would because you can't understand each other very well.

Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.

Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.

I just want to keep learning.

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.