Success is the sum of a lot of small things done correctly.

If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.

As far as cuisine is concerned one must read everything, see everything, hear everything, try everything, observe everything, in order to retain in the end, just a little bit.

The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.

In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.

There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters.

Every morning the cuisinier must start again at zero, with nothing on the stove. That is what real cuisine is all about.

Perfection is lots of little things done well.

I'm not hard to please, I'm content with the very best.

A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.

Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations.

When someone's success makes you as happy as if it were your own, you know you've found someone worth holding on to.

Remarkable, really, the lengths to which humans will go to fit things into their version of reality.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.

My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.

I mean, God, I'm so lucky right now with the opportunities that I've had. There's nothing to worry about

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.

String theory is based on the simple idea that all the four forces of the universe: gravity, the electromagnetic force and the two nuclear forces, can be viewed, as music.

Great striking partnerships come in pairs.

If you think cat food is for cats, how come it doesn't come in mouse flavor?