With grief, you have reason to despair; it's a human thing.
Innovation is about practical creativity - it's about making new ideas useful...
I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
I don't like tofu. I'd sooner eat a sponge.
I have the same problems that everybody else does.
I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.
I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.
Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer.
Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.
I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract.
In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.
Ultimately, I want to prepare food that will be recognized equally in Tokyo, London, and Paris. I am after that universality, that transcendence.
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.
I'd rather have Daniel Boulud have 20 restaurants than some restauranteur. It's going to make the food in our country better.
