I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.

If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.

I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.

I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.

You only grow when you are alone.

We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.

While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.