In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while they're cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.

I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in my mind. I don't need the precision of the picture.

You don't become a chef to become famous.

It's a very naive idea to think that the chef is cooking everything, and, on top of it, is irreplaceable. That would mean that basically he is the only genius, and there are idiots all around him, which doesn't make sense.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

You don't do a business for pleasure: You have to make money.

I grew up on romantic comedies and love watching those films. They were, like, a real joy and a source of great pleasure and an escape.

The diminishing economic role of the United States in the global economy means that global political power will also become more dispersed. The world will become multipolar. By clumsily re-asserting a wish for U.S. dominance, Donald Trump is accelerating the opposite.