In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon – all served with black beans and rice. It’s festive but different.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C – not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.

I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That’s God talking.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

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.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread – works all the time. I think I’ve been eating pasta for 26 years.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

As a British driver, you get compared to Lewis and I get that. But when he came to McLaren, they were doing well and had a championship-winning car. I’m in a very different situation so I don’t compare myself to his stats.

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it’s never ‚oh my god, its all going down the tubes‘, like the blues often is.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

When you’re a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don’t actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I’ll do, and especially when I’m in New York, I’ll go for a run. And I’ll run 10 or 15k on my – and I run to gain my appetite.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything that I’m not.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

My mom had Julia Child and ‚The Fannie Farmer Cookbook‘ on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

I like Tom Ford a lot because it’s so classic and has great quality. I wear a lot of Rag & Bone.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start.

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 wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.