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.

But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; they make the best fast food hamburgers around.

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

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.

I think every young cook wants to write a book.

It wasn't about mechanics; it was about a feeling, wanting to give someone something, which in turn was really gratifying. That really resonated for me.

This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.