I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

A party without cake is just a meeting.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

People who love to eat are always the best people.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. You've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

Reality itself is too obvious to be true.

The futility of everything that comes from the media is the inability to remain silent.

Illusion is no longer possible because the real is no longer possible.

Everywhere is the same, but there is no place to be found.

The consumer society is an illusion, a delirium of signs and objects.

The system itself creates the illusion of choice.

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none.