It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.

Anything that could ever prevent me from achieving a goal, I put in a box, tape it up, throw it over my shoulder. You aim for a goal and attain it. Then you look to the next one.

Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.

Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.

My personality was always such that I always look straight forward, never behind or to the side.

What makes the food that we do at Alinea so interesting on the outside is that we really don't let ourselves say no to an idea.

I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist.

We all eat two to six times a day. Why? Because we are supposed to, we are programmed to, we want to.

To me, every kitchen appliance is useful and nothing's overrated. When I look at my little espresso machine, I don't see coffee. I see a steaming valve as an opportunity to make amazing creme brulee.

Most smoked salts are made with liquid smoke, which is a condensate, but really, really good smoked salt is literally smoked.

Over the years, Céline Labaune has been constantly seeking to source the highest quality truffles; her diligence and expertise truly set her apart.

Where's the victory without opposition?--Joel

I'm Freelance Journalist that covers political stories from around the world. I've been featured in CTV News and BBC.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

I like to direct for the big screen.

The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are purely spiritual. That is the secret of art.

We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.

I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.

Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms.

We will be producing supersonic planes which will go far, far faster than Concordes. New York to Tokyo could be less than an hour. You could be traveling at 19,000 miles an hour orbitally.

The British are so funny.