The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.

Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important.

Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.

Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.

Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.

Nowadays, food needs to be healthy, local, sustainable and not filled with too much fat, salt or sugar. It should be slow-cooked and seasonal. That's my vision.

The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.

I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind the piano.

Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.

I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.

Knowing the future is different from being told what I like.

In life, there are dreary, empty days and there are exciting, full days. You will experience both, for you cannot choose one above the other. May your full days be many.

Walking with Murphythrough the bone-freezing chilltoward the bus stop, I start shivering.And somehow, when he slips his arm around meto warm me up, it feels right.Righter than anything ever has.

I didn't go there lightly. I knew even then that this was the beginning of something very hard to reverse. But I couldn't do otherwise now: I was too possessed

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

The fossil fuel industry for too long has shifted enormous costs of carbon pollution onto the public.

Its a dog eat dog world, and Mr. Perfect is a Milk Bone.

Fitzcarraldo is that metonymic character that's unwilling to give up on his dreams. Meeting Walter was the point in which all of these dreams coalesced into a very real person with a very real story.

Meat-eaters make every day a 9/11 for animals in slaughterhouses.