Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.

I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.

I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.

My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That’s just not my style... I cook from the soul.

Nobody likes sweaty coleslaw.

I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

I never liked filming the ads, but they were so well received.

The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.

It is possible there will be much less support for NATO because there is a lot of identification of the United States with NATO.

Writing by hand is a way of letting mystery into my writing. But I'm constantly trying to figure out how to do this job. It's a work in progress.

Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part.

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.