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.

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

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.

May I remind you, I am half Demon and I know full well how attracted I am to your dark side, just as the Angel in me is addicted to the shy and good girl that stands before me now.

But always when I was without a book, my soul would at once become disturbed, and my thoughts wandered. As I read, I began to call them together again and, as it were, laid a bait for my soul

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it's dangerous when you use it to justify answers.

You like to think that it's something you created, but secretly you know that you had some kind of help, or somebody gave this to you.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

We should not live one more day ignoring the sh** that suffocates and strangles US keeping US imprisoned in our own communities.