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.

Perfection is lots of little things done well.

A Bearnaise sauce is simply an egg yolk, a shallot, a little tarragon vinegar, and butter, but it takes years of practice for the result to be perfect.

In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.

I'm not hard to please, I'm content with the very best.

A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral.

Before judging a thin man, one must get some information. Perhaps he was once fat.