I'm loyal and very good about giving people opportunities.

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 you do not have a history, you do not have a future!

We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic power.

If the Fleeting World is but a long dream, it does not matter whether one is young or old.

If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right.

The stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yard! America's chickens are coming home to roost!

Every day you make mistakes. And the key to making mistakes is first you have to make them, which means you're in the game. So don't be afraid of getting in the game.

I would describe my style as off the wall. I like stuff that doesn't match. I just like to stand out.

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.