It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.

When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.

Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.

If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or the most profitable, you're just not seeing the big picture.

I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.

We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.

Clean plates don't lie.

It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

Make the best of the time you have left, live like there is no tomorrow.

Solitude sometimes is best society.

It's okay to have faith in something that you can't see or touch.

When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.

If you asked me to name the three scariest threats facing the human race, I would give the same answer that most people would: nuclear war, global warming and Windows.

If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

Plan your hours to be productive...Plan your weeks to be educational...Plan your years to be purposeful. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. Plan to change. Plan to grow.

In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.

The Bill of Life was signed, the Unwind Accord went into effect, and the war was over. Everyone was so happy to end the war, no one cared about the consequences

I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.