When a customer receives a dish, they get food and design at the same time.

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.

Food is about being happy - at a table, thats probably where we spend most of our happiest hours.

I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible.

If you think well, you cook well.

I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.

Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.

I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.

You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.

Our kitchen is a kitchen that makes food designed to be tasted with the five senses and it requires concentration to appreciate all that we want to express.

You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

Yes, one can wager war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbor while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

After a long time when the sun finally comes out of the clouds, the Earth salutes it by striking its best pose!

No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.

Mach-5, the speed at which stress can't keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self- propelled. Note that people in cars are still stressed.

I was like, "Everybody sees my characters. Nobody sees me!"

I kind of love coming home and being with family and feeling comfortable and knowing where I come from; I kind of like it.

We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.

A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.

I'm a very humble person. I don't rub salt in people's wounds and I'm genuine.