“It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description.”

Without new ideas, success can become stale.

Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?

I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.

I’m not going anywhere. I hope. It’s been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you.

I learned to recognize failure.

I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

And chicken is boring. Chefs see it as a menu item for people who don’t know what they want to eat.

Selling out is getting a job.

Good food and good eating are about risk.

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

Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.

What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?

An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.

The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’

America’s still a very, very powerful symbol and a very important place of leadership for the world.

I think it doesn’t matter where you’re from, we all need a bit of romance.

Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.