It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right. And that is why you must seize the control of the circumstance and dominate every last detail: to guarantee that they're going to have a far better time than they ever would have had if they tried to control it themselves.

My parents couldnt be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.

If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is The Brothers Karamazov.

Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.