Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra.

If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it. If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe.

Critics are like eunuchs: they know how, but they can't do it.

Without butter, without eggs, there is no reason to come to France.

The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

True places are not found on maps.

Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.

To make a beautiful piece means you have really witnessed it and really made decisions about it.

So much of Hollywood is about who the people you work with are.

Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you.

The smell rewards the care.

Keep your hopes up. Or down. Wherever you want them to be. Just have hope somewhere.