I have a drivers licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.

Food is about being happy - at a table, thats probably where we spend most of our happiest hours.

I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible.

If you think well, you cook well.

I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.

Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.

I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.

You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.

Our kitchen is a kitchen that makes food designed to be tasted with the five senses and it requires concentration to appreciate all that we want to express.

You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

True intellect is that which resolves issues. All else is excess intellect

People can say anything, but a person’s actions show how they truly feel about you. Actions express priority.

One cannot live on anger, my son.

Don’t take everything for granted, and do not always count on finding everything you need.

One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

I listen to the people. That was a big reason for my life, maybe the main reason, I'm singing because I love it when people say to me, 'Thank you.' I thank them. It's a marriage.

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

Religion is just a path for finding truth: Religion is not truth. It is just a path. And different people follow different paths.

Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.

When my life is throughAnd the angels ask me to recallThe thrill of them allThen I shall tell themI remember you