My mother and my grandmother would make an apple tart in different styles, and I had one per day. Every day I would eat one full apple tart.

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

For me, food is about memories, feelings, emotions, and so is Le Bernardin, and that's why it's not just a restaurant.

In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while theyre cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.

My New Year's resolution is to cut my diet sodas down to two cans a day!

I love garlic, and I use it often.

I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.

If I go to a nightclub, even if the music is good, if the sound system is not, I don't stay.

Obviously California is fantastic in terms of produce, vegetables.

Well, cooking starts with shopping. If the ingredients are not good, you don't do it. Just change your mind and do something else.

I admit my view of the world is colored by my legal and business experiences at Liberty.

When you lose what you love remember to stay strong. Look out the window and remember life goes on.

Tomorrow really will take care of itself if I do the right thing today.

Everyone has to grow up and that's what we're all doing; we're just doing it in different ways.

Either God must be unjust, or you, Jews, wicked and ungodly. You have been, about fifteen hundred years, a race rejected of God.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

Somebody said that my work might be an interesting source of material.

I nodded, pretending I was relaxed. I watched the sunlight sparkling on the water and practiced mind-body integration for a few seconds by quietly hyperventilating.

But I would say, you know, if you're getting married - why are you getting married? Why would you get married? Why would anybody get married?

I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises...