Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.

Food is about being happy - at a table, thats probably where we spend most of our happiest hours.

I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible.

If you think well, you cook well.

I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.

Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.

I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.

You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.

Our kitchen is a kitchen that makes food designed to be tasted with the five senses and it requires concentration to appreciate all that we want to express.

You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

We hide our demons so good, that the angels we show, bare the shame on their faces.

The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.

I'd come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it.

She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.

I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

I believe shooting chronologically gives you a very fresh perspective and you're always aware of where you are in the development of the characters.

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.