My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.

Success is measured by the memories you create.

It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.

A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide.

Respect for food is respect for life, for who we are and what we do.

For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.

You have to be driven. You have to be focused. You have to be aware.

You have tasted of death now, ” said the old man. “Is it good?” “It is good, ” said Mossy. “It is better than life.”“No, ” said the old man: “it is only more life.

No mountain of doom, Just foothills of Ferninand.Towers of fire and glory as far as one can see.

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Too often we women try to tackle chaos that is not ours to fix.

...they tended towards the simple pleasures in life: drinking, whoring and fighting, preferably all three at once.

The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe.

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and wherever needed.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

There is no point in starting your own business unless you do it out of a sense of frustration.

They must go for it now as they have nothing to lose but the match.