My wife Susi and my kids quite simply are the most fun of all my friends.

The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other.

When you add just a little bit [of Tabasco] at the end, what you taste is the spectrum between the cooked chile flavor and the kind of nearly raw, just kind of fermented chile flavor at the end.

There are two activities in life in which we can lovingly and carefully put something inside of someone we love. Cooking is the one we can do three times a day for the rest of our lives, without pills. In both activities, practice makes perfect.

I put hibiscus flower in every cup of tea I have. It's sweet, sexy, and cleansing.

If I hear something's not quite going right, then I'm there quicker than if I hear something's going wrong.

Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.