Real French people don't bake! At least they don't bake anything complicated, finicky, tricky or unreliable.

Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them.

Sometimes I think there are devils at work in the kitchen - recipes that are always perfect sometimes come out less than perfect and I can't figure out why.

I don't know if there's a method that I'd like to see younger people bring back, I just want to see everyone of every age in the kitchen.

The food world is more crowded these days, but I think that there are more opportunities.

Do the work you are most proud of

I often say that eggs and sugar should be beaten until they thicken and pale and sometimes, when there are lots of yolks, that's lemon colored.

When I'm developing a recipe with brown butter - I know how much butter I want in the end and I so I start with more butter than I'll need.

Anything you make in a 'normal' sized loaf pan can be made in the longer pan - you just have to increase the recipe proportionately.

You can use melted butter instead of oil, but your cake may be a little denser.

Welcome to the 21st century cosmopolitan world where biased thoughts preside over unbiased deeds, simple gestures become overrated gossip materials and injustice is a part of long term justice.

In England you have a good phrase. It is 'to bring the game into disrepute.

I get it now. I have to make good on my promise. To let her go. To really let her go. To let us both go.

They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them.

In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.

Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.

You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.

The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you.

I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.

I look at my hands and go, 'Hmm...what happened? Whose hands are those? Oh my God, they're mine'