I eat a lot of whole grains for breakfast, a lot of dried fruit. And my big thing is pasta. I do a lot of simple pasta, with great ingredients.

Pasta is the one food I can't live without. It's the food I eat to fuel my running.

Carbs - especially pasta - are the fuel my body needs to maintain an athletic lifestyle.

The pressure, the heat, the almost impossibly fast pace at which you need work - this is the reality of working in the culinary industry. This is what professional chefs do night after night.

Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently.

The best pastas are cut with bronze dies that give them a rough texture and allow the sauce to cling.

At home, I make a large batch of tomato sauce and freeze it in meal-size portions in freezer bags.

Aside from hospitality and delicious food, our [restaurateurs'] job is to entertain people. Restaurants should make people feel special, excited and fulfilled.

Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks or they think they're superstar hosts.

No matter what it is you are cooking, buy the best ingredients you can afford. I don't care if it's a simple salad or Beef Wellington. A quality product stands alone and won't need any dressing up.

America has been conditioned to think of pasta as the never-ending pasta bowl and Olive Garden.

Because stories start in minds-- they aren't artifacts or natural phenomena.

They love him most for the enemies that he has made.

The purpose of fun is to live it.

We know very well that India's destiny is linked to world peace.

The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes.

I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.

I like to make definite choices and give my characters as many unique edges as possible.

You can save the city, but having the city be in jeopardy is one thing and having the people you care about be in jeopardy is another.

Out of darkness is born the light.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.