The fish is the star of the plate.

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

For me, food is about memories, feelings, emotions, and so is Le Bernardin, and that's why it's not just a restaurant.

In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while theyre cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.

My New Year's resolution is to cut my diet sodas down to two cans a day!

I love garlic, and I use it often.

I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.

If I go to a nightclub, even if the music is good, if the sound system is not, I don't stay.

Obviously California is fantastic in terms of produce, vegetables.

Well, cooking starts with shopping. If the ingredients are not good, you don't do it. Just change your mind and do something else.

The first time I watched him fight, I got hard. My heart pounded in my chest, and I chewed on my lip until it bled. I vowed then I would make him mine.

Everything you want lies on the other side of learning to trust yourself. Take a chance. Have faith. You already know who you are, what you want, and where you want to go.

If a path in your life leaves you in a place where you feel lost and alone, may you follow your heart and souluntil you feel at home.

Conscience is worse than death, some people commit suicide to evade it.

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all.

If you don't know it, don't write it.

Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements.

I do modern jazz and contemporary combined. I like to feel strong, flexible, and so there is stretching involved.

The fields stretch out in long unbroken rows. We walk aware of what is far and close. Here distance is familiar as a friend. The feud we kept with space comes to an end.