In order to succeed, you have to fail, no? You ride a bicycle, you fail; you try a few times, you succeed.

I make my own chocolate, I grow my own beans, and now I have something about the history of chocolate. I feel I try to go as far as I can into this profession.

I still make mistakes today - I always explain to people, when you will make as many mistakes as I did, then you will know as much as I know in my profession.

My goal is to teach what chocolate is. I don't think my customers understand what it takes to make chocolates.

Anybody with money can put on a KISS show, but they can't be KISS.

After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate law. I probably would have made a lot more money and died of boredom by now.

In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped, the maid would look in, her father would shuffle his feet in another room. Today the boy calls up, says, 'Meet you at the back door of Stern's.'

A lot of my material was based on my family.