If the lift is broken, I'll just sit and wait for them to sort it out. I don't believe in friendly conversation or chit-chat.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

Gastronomy is the greatest form of therapy that anyone can be exposed to.

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.

At the end of the day it's just food, isn't it? Just food.

I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

Don't dress for others, dress for yourself. Clothes should be an extension of what you represent and what you feel inside.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

change is a constant in life – maybe the only constant there is – and sudden change is not unusual. Thus an important inquiry is: How can I make change a friend rather than source of fear?

...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

Think in terms of images and words. They can be mighty powerful when they are fitted together properly.

If you have no drugs, then you have revolution, and then drugs will be the only thing stopping that.

No god should ever be invoked to inflict harm.

I don't understand why my fans ask for a hug, like, i don't mind, just come and hug me!

Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.

When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.

Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact.