Too much trouble," "Too expensive," or "Who will know the difference" are death knells for good food.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

A party without cake is really just a meeting.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

People who love to eat are always the best people.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.

A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.

I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.

I wasn't born with enough middle fingers

The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death.

Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.

You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.

I knew the human exaggeration for sorrow-a broken heart.

When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.