The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.

Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.

Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.

But artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist.

To those that are not accustomed to it the inner beauty appears as ugliness because humanity in general inclines to the outer and knows nothing of the inner.

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically, ' they really mean, 'not really.'

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

It's my object to be stared at like a dog that's just been shown a card trick.

Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.

My mother gave me one piece of advice that stuck with me. She said don't forget where you came from.

I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.

No-one is born with perfect eyebrow.

Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.