People don't think that bread is part of Asian culture or Asian food culture, but it's quite prevalent in Northern China, and you see it throughout Japan and as you go to Taiwan.

Contemporary ramen is totally different than what most Americans think ramen should be. Ramen is not one thing; there are many, many different types.

We're hoping to succeed; we're okay with failure. We just don't want to land in between.

Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.

Rage or fear... It oscillates. Rage I need to motivate me to try things that I can't ordinarily do - as I'm a lazy man. Fear - to keep pushing harder so we don't lose what we've accomplished.

Lifes too short to just breeze on by.

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

To eat well, I always disagree with critics who say that all restaurants should be fine dining. You can get a Michelin star if you serve the best hamburger in the world.

I find that there are a lot of similarities between French and Japanese food. I think they're two countries that have really systemized their cuisine and codified it.

I constantly think I'm a fraud, that this success is not warranted or justified.

The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out. There's so much more competition. You can do an event every week and not cook at all.

I go silent so I can write. When my tongue is wagging my fingers are silent.

Expect the Unexpected

If I'm going to represent God I have to do it the best I can.

God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation.

But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts.

Are there differences between black actors’ opportunities and white actors’ opportunities? Yes, there are. It’s been said.

It is very unique. I think what happens in a big, major institution is coaches get wrapped up in their own little deals.

My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That's how I see my voice.

And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.