A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.

I like to start off my day with a glass of champagne...I like to wind it up with a glass of champagne, too. To be frank, I also like a glass or two in between. It may not be the universal medicine for every disease, as my friends in Reims and Epernay so often tell me, but it does you less harm than any other liquid.

Cuisine is not invariable like a Codex formula. But one must guard against tampering with the essential bases.

If he is thin, I will probably dine poorly. If he is both thin and sad, the only hope is in flight.

A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.

Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations.

Success is the sum of a lot of small things done correctly.