Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.

We learn as professionals by repetition, by getting it wrong, getting yelled at and doing it again.

Thinking that your story is so interesting that other people will want to listen to it or read it or pay to hear it, that's - what kind of person thinks that? A monster of self-regard. It's not normal thinking.

Cooking is work that is traditionally done by working-class people. The work itself is not glamorous. It's repetitive, and it's a lot closer to factory work than art, whatever level you're doing it at. Certainly chefs are used to living like rock 'n' rollers to some extent, inasmuch as we get a lot of those fringe benefits without having to learn how to play guitar.

The cookbooks I value the most in my collection are the ones where you hear the author's voice and point-of-view in every recipe.

I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.

In that sense, what a great way to live, if you could always do things that interest you, and do them with people who interest you.