With passion, if you see the first asparagus of the springtime and you become passionate about it, so much the better, but three weeks later, when you’ve seen that asparagus every day now, passions have subsided. What’s going to make you treat the asparagus the same? It’s the desire.

I think every young cook wants to write a book.

The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.

You don't know when inspiration is going to come. But you have to be aware of what's going on around you, so that at any moment, when inspiration happens, you're ready for it and you interpret it.

Success is measured by the memories you create.

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.