I’m always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got..

I don't snack. I don't generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even before big ones..

You dropped a 500-seat deuce on Times Square..

Without new ideas success can become stale.

There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You t….

When I'm back in New York - and this is a terrible thing to complain about - I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I'd like to. So m….

When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out..

In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression fr….

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble….

When your signature dish is hamburger in between a doughnut, and you've been cheerfully selling this stuff knowing all along that you've got Type 2 D….

A good, stinky French cheese or a good Stilton. These are things I really, really love. Dessert I can obviously live without..

My family is very far from normal..

Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, con….

On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then we cut them of….

I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in common is that he's also a guy who is ver….

I travel 250 days a year. There are chef friends who I only see every couple of years. By conventional standards I'm a bad friend. I'm not there to r….

I go anywhere I want, do whatever I want when I get there, they let me make self-indulgent TV about that experience, and give me about as much creati….

I'm in no position to try to tell people how to live their family life..

I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel..

In my house, neither my wife nor my daughter are impressed that I'm on television, and they remind me of that frequently..

Cooking professionally is a dominant act, at all times about control. Eating well, on the other hand, is about submission. It's about giving up all v….