"As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it."

"Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients."

"Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food."

"Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant."

"I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone."

"At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone."

"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters."

"Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise."