The food world is more crowded these days, but I think that there are more opportunities.

Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them.

Real French people don't bake! At least they don't bake anything complicated, finicky, tricky or unreliable.

Sometimes I think there are devils at work in the kitchen - recipes that are always perfect sometimes come out less than perfect and I can't figure out why.

I don't know if there's a method that I'd like to see younger people bring back, I just want to see everyone of every age in the kitchen.

Do the work you are most proud of

I often say that eggs and sugar should be beaten until they thicken and pale and sometimes, when there are lots of yolks, that's lemon colored.

When I'm developing a recipe with brown butter - I know how much butter I want in the end and I so I start with more butter than I'll need.

Anything you make in a 'normal' sized loaf pan can be made in the longer pan - you just have to increase the recipe proportionately.

You can use melted butter instead of oil, but your cake may be a little denser.

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.

The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

Work is the world's easiest escape from boredom and the only surefire road to success.

You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

My progress reminded me of the horses in The Whip. They raced at the limit of their speed directly toward the audience. But they raced on a treadmill which canceled out their progress.

Even your own arms, deep inside your body feel foriegn to you, feel that they do not belong to you. Here lies an important secret. Butoh's radical essence is hidden here.

The biggest thing you need to be successful with it is a quarterback who wants to be involved in the decision-making process and not just merely want to execute plays sent in to him.