Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

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.

You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

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.

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.