I think every woman should have a blowtorch.

I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

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.

I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to the skillet, the apple charlotte slowly collapsing. One of the secrets of cooking is to learn to correct something if you can, and bear with it if you cannot.

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken.