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

If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.

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

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.

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.

In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist.

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