I'm a beet freak. I put them in the pressure cooker.

How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art form and the cooking for cooking's sake. You can talk with a concierge or police officer about food in France as a general rule. It is not the general rule here. Classical cuisine, which I hope we are going back to, means certain ways of doing things and certain ways of not doing things. If you know classical French cooking you can do anything. If you don't know the basics, you turn out slop.

No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize.

The main thing is to have a gutsy approach and use your head.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.