I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

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.

You can Save Time with Writing but you can Save a Life by Reading.

Truly a good horse, good ground to gallop on, and sunshine, make up the sum of enjoyable travelling.

I truly believe that before I retire from public office I'll be voting for a woman for president.

If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.

Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.

Listen,” she said. “I may not be what you want right now, but I’m all you’ve got.

My body should only be for my husband and it's just a sacred thing.

And so I tell you this: be now and forever centered upon your Self. Look to see what you are being, doing, and having in any given moment, not what's going on with another.

to live means to lack something at every moment

Now the baby's in the trash heap balling.