It’s very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it’s merely about combining ingredients, but that’s something you can do with your eyes closed.

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.

Food is about being happy - at a table, thats probably where we spend most of our happiest hours.

I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible.

If you think well, you cook well.

I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.

Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.

I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.

You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.

Our kitchen is a kitchen that makes food designed to be tasted with the five senses and it requires concentration to appreciate all that we want to express.

You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

Because the eye has seen, thoughts are structured upon images and not upon ideas.

Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points.

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost."

Life is hard enough as it is without choosing someone difficult to share it with.

The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising.

If the crowd disperses, goes home, does not reassemble, we say the revolution is over.

The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works.

To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.