You cannot get an influence from the cuisine of a country if you don't understand it. You've got to study it.

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.

It is strangely wonderful to feel the lack of something instead of believing that it was never there in the first place.

...choosing words is harder than I thought.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

It's a game everybody plays. If you see a man with a beard and holler "Beaver!" it's five points. And if you see a man with a moustache, it's onlI three points.

It does not seem a year Since last we sent to you Our wishes for your special day And all that you would do.

There's nothing as scary as the future.

Learn to swim. It is a sport all the peasants can play.

The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.

The more sleep you get in before the clock turns midnight, the more rested you feel no matter what time your alarm goes off.

A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for.