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

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.

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

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

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.

Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

I never go up there trying to hit a home run

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.

By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile.

A beautiful person is a person who is capable of being the best version of himself/herself, inside and out as often as possible.

I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.

I know the guru route, I know you go sit on a mountain. But screw India. I ain't going there.

"But please, when you see an opportunity..." He presses his hand to my cheek, cold and strong, and tilts my head up so I have to look at him. His eyes glint. They almost look predatory. "Ruin them."