Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.

Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.

If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or the most profitable, you're just not seeing the big picture.

I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.

We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.

Clean plates don't lie.

It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.

I said, 'Don, what's sustainable about feeding chicken to fish?'

Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

What does it tell you that applications for guns since the shooting are up 41 percent in Colorado, and that our cameras found about 50 people in line at one gun shop yesterday outside Denver?

To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

Acting is pretty much my whole life.

To the sun Rome owes its underlying glow, and its air called golden - to me, more the yellow of white wine; like wine it raises agreeability to poetry.

I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.

The prevailing view has been that the market will earn a high rate of return if the holding period is long enough, but entry point is what really matters.