I love garlic, and I use it often.

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

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.

As a leader, if you can no longer inspire your people it is time to step aside and let someone else take the lead

Love is energy of life.

Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!

If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.

Try the Lamentations of Jeremiah. They always pick me up.

I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.

Who are you going to live for - yourself or God?

And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?

Good wombs have borne bad sons." -- (Miranda, I:2)