If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

Push your limit to the absolute extreme.

There's no bigger pain anywhere in the world than a vegetarian.

Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us.

That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.

This European and really pro-Russian nationalism is seeping into America. It's very disturbing.

There are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the idea of causes, and the idea of chance.

Yesterday's pain is the Warrior of the Light's strength.

Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.

Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.

It is best to live however one can be.

Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.

good morning sinners. vampiric red bull intake in pub smoking compound commenced. day of heavy brain-fingering ahead.