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.

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.

I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.

Character is the real you-“the you in you that makes you the you, you are”. “the hidden man of the heart

We are playing with desires that disappear.

What Writing Is: Telepathy, of course.

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.

When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and writing fiction is the only way I've found that seems to begin to do that.

A married woman, the safest place for any woman to be is at home with her husband.

My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.

Love is a fragile, useless thing. It decomposes easily in the tropic heat.

Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.