Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare indeed.

A kitchen is a good place to be, almost always the best place in the house.

I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.

People, you have six senses! The last one is common! Use it!

Recipes are not assembly manuals. Recipes are guides and suggestions for a process that is infinitely nuanced. Recipes are sheet music.

We better take care of the earth or we're gonna have shitty food, and having shitty food is no fun.

Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.

Women eat ice-cream, men toast marshmallows.

Ronnie snarled and Brendon roared back.Her eyes narrowed. "You roared at me?""And I'll do it again if you can't keep your paws off my Oreos.

But she's a redhead, so she's probably evil, even at her tender age.""I thought you liked redheads.""I do. What's your point?

Believe it or not, I say my prayers in the morning and in the evening.

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

Christmas is the one day of the year when it's most obvious someone's missing. It had to become less about the presents.

One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.

We were just hanging out and getting to learn about each other. But I think trust was a really big thing. Patti [Smith] is a good friend, somebody I can talk to.

It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.