Believe me, a grain is a terrible thing to waste.

I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera

Laughing brains are more absorbent.

Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.

So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.

I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.

A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.

If everyone could be a successful and rich author, there would be no point in working so hard. Where is the fun in that?

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories

Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.

If Diet Coke did not exist it would have been neccessary to invent it.

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

All I ever wanted was a Virginia farm, no end of cream and fresh butter and fried chicken - not one fried chicken, or two, but unlimited fried chicken.

It's never fun to be scared [about stage fright] but I think that it is important and it's healthy to always push yourself.

Once made a mistake, it won't happen again.

I felt, if I never did anything in my life but read scripts and synopsize them, I would be happy.

All property is theft, except mine.