I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist.

It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.

Anything that could ever prevent me from achieving a goal, I put in a box, tape it up, throw it over my shoulder. You aim for a goal and attain it. Then you look to the next one.

Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.

Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.

My personality was always such that I always look straight forward, never behind or to the side.

What makes the food that we do at Alinea so interesting on the outside is that we really don't let ourselves say no to an idea.

We all eat two to six times a day. Why? Because we are supposed to, we are programmed to, we want to.

To me, every kitchen appliance is useful and nothing's overrated. When I look at my little espresso machine, I don't see coffee. I see a steaming valve as an opportunity to make amazing creme brulee.

Most smoked salts are made with liquid smoke, which is a condensate, but really, really good smoked salt is literally smoked.

Over the years, Céline Labaune has been constantly seeking to source the highest quality truffles; her diligence and expertise truly set her apart.

Where there is (consideration for) merit karma and demerit karma

If God adds another day to our life let us receive it gladly.

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.

Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and inhumane. But as a business it worked.

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.