In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.

Success is measured by the memories you create.

It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.

A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide.

Respect for food is respect for life, for who we are and what we do.

For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.

You have to be driven. You have to be focused. You have to be aware.

My greatest wish

A woman without her sister is like a bird without her wings.

It was as if when he left he'd taken some of the screws that held her together and now all she could do was walk around all wonky and falling apart

If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position.

I just hope that I get a chance to keep making pictures in the atmosphere of freedom to make mistakes, and to find those magical things. Then I don't care what else happens.

Some teachers are extremely inaccessible. They feel their teachings are for very few so they make it intentionally hard to get to themselves.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

Hope does not need to silence the rumblings of crisis to be hope.

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.