I have an amazing wife and three daughters that always keep me motivated.

Food is about making an interaction with ingredients. If you talk to them, they will always tell you a story.

Cotton candy is the most amazing form of caramelization ever invented by man.

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.

The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

I'm sorry for the ducks; I love foie gras.

There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.

I'm always looking to the future and what will next be on the horizon.

Every time I open a bottle of wine, it is an amazing trip somewhere.

I think every chef should have a food truck. It's a good way to test the markets, to invest in meeting the future restaurant goers.

Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.

I just want to die knowing that I’ve made a difference in the world... or at least a difference to someone, no matter how small the difference.

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.

When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.

we should be careful not to let machinery swamp life. That we should be sure, when we are confronted with a fresh mechanical contrivance, that we are not losing more than we gain by adopting it.

In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.

Don't let the fear of the thorn keep you from the rose.

I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.

Dani said this woman, with whom she’d lived for two years, had never known her. “I feel like people accept the first thing I show them,” she said, “and that’s all I ever am to them.

I always thought I was different.

In the '80s and '90s, there was some degree of compassion for people with HIV because there was visible human suffering.