I love watching, I love getting all the science about food. That's one of my favorite things.

Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too.

Kids want to saute, to cut the pizza, to see how the ingredients come together. If you let them do the fun stuff, they'll develop skills and interests that will stay with them forever.

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

I wanna be the ambassador to Chimichanga Flavor Town.

If you slow it down, eat in courses, your body, mind, stomach will catch up with this full feeling and you won't eat as much.

Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.

You dont have to eat a whole cheeseburger, just take a piece of the cheeseburger.

No matter how tough the meat may be, it's going to be tender if you slice it thin enough.

You've got balls inviting me here.

Some people are just born to cook and talk.

I think that fiction has a part to play in urging us, as a species, toward compassion.

War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers.

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

I was a D student in high school and on the dean's list in college.

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.

I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address.

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.