Today, because I want to be gentle on my back, I listen to jazz.

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.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

Suffering is the common lot of man.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service.

I believe in invisible; I do not believe in visible.

I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.

I think more airtime should be given to Donald Trump and Orly Taitz. They should run for office together. They should open for Charlie Sheen.

We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering.

I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.