That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true.

It's very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.

I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.

I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.

I've been very careful about what I say yes to and what I say no to. And I think seriously always about... this may be a good idea right now or it may be a lot of money right now, but will it be good for me five years from now? Will it be fun? Will it make me hate myself? I think about all of those things.

I do my very best to avoid shark fin.