My mum doesn't enjoy sometimes listening to me tell staff off, and I say to my mum, it's a kitchen, not a hair-dressing salon.

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

Push your limit to the absolute extreme.

Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name.

The holes in my shoes and the holes in my jeans make me whole!

Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world...

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. It's a cliche and we use it too much but I think for a husband and wife the way to stay close is to do things together and share.

I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal.

It's time to believe in what you know.

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.