I don’t have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what’s appropriate or attractive.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

The English don’t like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It’s alright if they come from an ‚intellectual,‘, but from a pop star you’re getting ahead of yourself. Part of the class game is that you shouldn’t rise above your station, and to start talking about concepts if you’re in the pop world is getting a bit uppity, isn’t it?

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.

I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don’t think so.

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Honestly, I just go to restaurants to eat so I won’t die. If there was a pill I could take in January and then I wouldn’t have to eat again for the rest of the year, I would take it. Of course, I wouldn’t want to sacrifice my chocolate cake and ice cream.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It’s completely pointless.

I’m evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about – or as a ritual like filling up a car – but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

Those places I don’t understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

Chastity – the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it’s Shillong, it’s northeastern.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

My father opened a restaurant. It’s so amazing… it’s so freaking delicious, but I’m telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Steak and Shake in Indianapolis is definitely the first stop when we hit that city.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

I was mischievous. I wasn’t bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn’t know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

It’s vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don’t want my chefs to be cute and adorable.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

I hid myself in food.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Hunger is the best pickle.

If merely ‚feeling good‘ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.