I'm not hard to please, I'm content with the very best.

If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.

As far as cuisine is concerned one must read everything, see everything, hear everything, try everything, observe everything, in order to retain in the end, just a little bit.

The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.

In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.

Success is the sum of a lot of small things done correctly.

There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters.

Every morning the cuisinier must start again at zero, with nothing on the stove. That is what real cuisine is all about.

Perfection is lots of little things done well.

A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.

Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations.

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

It is time for a new compact among the civilized peoples of this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source: the corruption of young minds by violent ideology.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

The promises of higher education and previously enviable credentials have turned into the swindle of fulfillment.

I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?

While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent feelings with words lyrically organized on a page.

I love to take baths.

I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.

comedians are people who say funny things, and comics are people who say things funny.