...operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.

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.

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

Friends are seldom found; they are made.

In terms of jumping into a characters skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is whats required to achieve what I want to achieve.

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.

I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

Our wills are ours, to make them Thine.

I didn't spend a whole lot of time here, but I had the seven best years of my career in this city and having an attachment here 20-some odd years later is pretty special to me.

American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.