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.

It's simply a very romantic place. Just one look at any of those streets, and you couldn't be anywhere else - it's so beautiful, and there's that location, and the sense of the free spirit. Who couldn't become ravenous in such a place?

Food, like the people who eat it, can be stimulated by wine or spirits. And, as with people, it can also be spoiled.

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.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Food like love is a deeply emotional matter.

...nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should.