Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.

I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

Two words to improve any dish. Ba, Con

It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.

You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.

Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness.

People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare.

However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.

If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.

In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult.

Everyone will grow older, but few will grow wiser.

Living a life is not a choice but a duty, is our daily chore that we can't escape from it, unless you decide to enden it.

You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.

Cleanliness', chuckled Sir Benjamin, noting his great niece's delighted smile as her eyes rested upon him, 'comes next to godliness, eh, Maria?

Using clichés is a substitute for thinking

I won't give up till we surrender!

Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious.

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

I'm always out looking for weird, beautiful things.

The thirsty look for water, but water also looks for thirsty.