“In normal life, "simplicity" is synonymous with "easy to do," but when a chef uses the word, it means "takes a lifetime to learn.”

“A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.”

“A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.”

“It is easy to do good, but it takes a lifetime to become human!”

“Everything one used to take for granted, with so much certainty that one never even bothered to enquire about it, now turns out to be illusion. Your certainties are proven lies. And what happens if you start probing? Must you learn a wholly new language first?'Humanity'. Normally one uses it as a synonym for compassion; charity; decency; integrity. 'He is such a human person.' Must one now go in search of an entirely different set of synonyms: cruelty; exploitation; unscrupulousness; or whatever?”

“It was quite normal in that day for a man to use up three or four wives in a normal lifetime.”