My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day.

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.

Food is ever-changing and ever moving forward and getting more and more complex.

Creative risks will always outweigh technical mistakes.

Give yourself enough time to really learn how to cook.

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

The better the ingredients, the more farmers I can buy from, the closer I feel to the food I want to make that represents what I care about as a chef.

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?

You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out" - Murray (WN 285).

ObamaCare is a complete disaster.

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.

God-forsaken is beautiful, too.

Climate change policies cannot be the frosting on the cake of development; they must be baked into the recipe of growth and social development.

The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.

If there is an auteur who influenced me - and there is only one - that is Charlie Chaplin. And he never won an Oscar.