To me, every kitchen appliance is useful and nothing's overrated. When I look at my little espresso machine, I don't see coffee. I see a steaming valve as an opportunity to make amazing creme brulee.

It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.

Anything that could ever prevent me from achieving a goal, I put in a box, tape it up, throw it over my shoulder. You aim for a goal and attain it. Then you look to the next one.

Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.

Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.

My personality was always such that I always look straight forward, never behind or to the side.

What makes the food that we do at Alinea so interesting on the outside is that we really don't let ourselves say no to an idea.

I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist.

We all eat two to six times a day. Why? Because we are supposed to, we are programmed to, we want to.

Most smoked salts are made with liquid smoke, which is a condensate, but really, really good smoked salt is literally smoked.

Over the years, Céline Labaune has been constantly seeking to source the highest quality truffles; her diligence and expertise truly set her apart.

Later that day when I walked down this dried-out riverbed, enjoying the last rays of sunshine on my bare skin, I felt a deep inner peace coming up straight from my heart.

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

Be it sin or no, I hate the man!

Even his mother, his own mother, had once accused him of being a snob.

The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.

Man is more than half of nature's treasure.

People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.

It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.

It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.

There are some people whom you have in life who have the capacity for real, passionate commitment to something, and sometimes you may be passionately committed to the same thing.