It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.

You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

Development is where my heart is focused because eating is the only thing that we do that involves all the senses. We eat with our eyes and our ears and our noses.

I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

Take note of what's around you and maximise sensory pleasure.

If it doesn't taste good it doesn't go on the menu

At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.

No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock.

I haven't raised my voice for eight to 10 years in the kitchen. And I won't have anybody shouting. If I hear of anybody having a go at anyone else, they'll get disciplined.

He wished he could be anywhere else and anyone else but Here and Him.

Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

Listen, the idea that I might be a fashion soothsayer is very flattering but completely inaccurate.

Well, maybe I'm not so emotionally dysfunctional after all.

A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the plight of the stick, well, you can imagine what that would be like.

In life you get one take, and it's perfect. It's strange, afterwards you might think I shouldn't have reacted that way, but that's the way you reacted. That's your take; that's all you get.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

You say in life, mistakes are many. How come you never admit to any?

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.