The best pastas are cut with bronze dies that give them a rough texture and allow the sauce to cling.

Pasta is the one food I can't live without. It's the food I eat to fuel my running.

Carbs - especially pasta - are the fuel my body needs to maintain an athletic lifestyle.

The pressure, the heat, the almost impossibly fast pace at which you need work - this is the reality of working in the culinary industry. This is what professional chefs do night after night.

I eat a lot of whole grains for breakfast, a lot of dried fruit. And my big thing is pasta. I do a lot of simple pasta, with great ingredients.

Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently.

At home, I make a large batch of tomato sauce and freeze it in meal-size portions in freezer bags.

Aside from hospitality and delicious food, our [restaurateurs'] job is to entertain people. Restaurants should make people feel special, excited and fulfilled.

Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks or they think they're superstar hosts.

No matter what it is you are cooking, buy the best ingredients you can afford. I don't care if it's a simple salad or Beef Wellington. A quality product stands alone and won't need any dressing up.

America has been conditioned to think of pasta as the never-ending pasta bowl and Olive Garden.

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?

Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

Life, what is it but a dream?

I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5. I've always loved pretending and being someone different.

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

I think people are more likely to think it's better to find something new. That mentality has affected all of our thinking.

Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both.

Only astrophysicists new about the Internet 20 years ago. Today my cat has a website.

As for my ideal type, I like girls who don't have powerful presence, and not self-centered. I'd like her to have a light skin, and a calm personality.