Taste, like identity, has value only when there are differences.

Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.

Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.

The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.

I believe that he who sows utopia will reap reality.

Any gastronome who is not an environmentalist is stupid, and any environmentalist who is not a gastronome is sad.

Looks like what drives me crazyDon't have no effect on you--But I'm gonna keep on at itTill it drives you crazy, too.

Skating is one of those sports you unfortunately see people get stuck in.

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.

If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.

We've had fairly consistent financial results.

Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.

I'd heard stuff from out there that I was just another player, that I was too young. I wanted to show I could play with anybody.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.