I often say that eggs and sugar should be beaten until they thicken and pale and sometimes, when there are lots of yolks, that's lemon colored.

Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them.

Real French people don't bake! At least they don't bake anything complicated, finicky, tricky or unreliable.

Sometimes I think there are devils at work in the kitchen - recipes that are always perfect sometimes come out less than perfect and I can't figure out why.

I don't know if there's a method that I'd like to see younger people bring back, I just want to see everyone of every age in the kitchen.

The food world is more crowded these days, but I think that there are more opportunities.

Do the work you are most proud of

When I'm developing a recipe with brown butter - I know how much butter I want in the end and I so I start with more butter than I'll need.

Anything you make in a 'normal' sized loaf pan can be made in the longer pan - you just have to increase the recipe proportionately.

You can use melted butter instead of oil, but your cake may be a little denser.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do--we do it all the time.

Am I on your walk of shame? You did sleep with the right MacGregor, didn’t you?

You really didn't appreciate how thick, how powerful water was until you had to fight it.

Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.

Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)

What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so many years it was very geographic.

We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.

To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me, too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe. [Suicide note.]

If Christians had ever been brave enough to make Christ alive, nobody would now be saying that Christianity is dead.