In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.

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.

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.

You have a very open relationship with your fans.""Yes. We have an open relationship. Obviously they can see other authors if they want, and I can see other readers.

InsomniaI wonderIf those talks matterFew done in the clarity of dayOr the manyDone at 3 a.m. in the morning

If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.

First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.

When we practice mindfulness, our nonphysical side merges with the nonphysical side of that which we are experiencing.

Happy endings come in different packages

When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.

Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent.

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

Most gods find it hard to walk and think at the same time.