If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.

Food is ever-changing and ever moving forward and getting more and more complex.

Creative risks will always outweigh technical mistakes.

Give yourself enough time to really learn how to cook.

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

The better the ingredients, the more farmers I can buy from, the closer I feel to the food I want to make that represents what I care about as a chef.

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.

When she needs you, she knows how to find you, but when you need her, she’s too busy to be with you.

The glorious light is sunshine.

I find it kind of funny. I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had.

Life is too short to play bad music

Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from every part of the face.

Man's glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in 'his goodness,' for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.

I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game; it is the game.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Sometimes, when you want to be in a place so badly, you'll do anything.

Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective