I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life.

Remember, it is never the knife's fault.

Young chefs, famous chefs, home cooks, and everyone who loves food and cooking-we all depend on Larousse Gastronomique. It is the only culinary encyclopedia that is always up-to-date.

For me, the food I like to make is the food I can enjoy all the time anytime. Its not too calculated or technical.

I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.

Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.

I learned from my grandmother, because we were cooking a lot for the farm. Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.

From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.

She chose to freeze her heart, and then stored it deep inside her freezer.She will let it there until she is ready.

DeWitt: Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it.

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

And all that we built, and all that we breathed And all that we spilled or pulled up like weeds Is piled up in back and it burns irrevocably And we spoke up in turns 'til the silence crept over me.

It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last.

I don't want anyone to expect anything from any of my films, I just want them to see it and then tell me what they think.

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere.

Nobody took me too seriously but I was grown up even as a baby.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over.