I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.

Contemporary ramen is totally different than what most Americans think ramen should be. Ramen is not one thing; there are many, many different types.

We're hoping to succeed; we're okay with failure. We just don't want to land in between.

Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.

Rage or fear... It oscillates. Rage I need to motivate me to try things that I can't ordinarily do - as I'm a lazy man. Fear - to keep pushing harder so we don't lose what we've accomplished.

Lifes too short to just breeze on by.

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

To eat well, I always disagree with critics who say that all restaurants should be fine dining. You can get a Michelin star if you serve the best hamburger in the world.

I find that there are a lot of similarities between French and Japanese food. I think they're two countries that have really systemized their cuisine and codified it.

I constantly think I'm a fraud, that this success is not warranted or justified.

The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out. There's so much more competition. You can do an event every week and not cook at all.

Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner.

Love as much as you can from wherever you are.

You can't know how much a mother loves.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

The CEO of large multi-nationals like Hillary [Clinton]. They won't going to like me and Wall Street is going to like me even less.

Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?

We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.

In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the author's dead. It's just us and the audience.

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.