I've learned that you shouldn't have preconceived notions about anybody.

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.

Be the master of your life.

Because that was the problem with society. It cared too much about who you fell in love with but never about why. The why matters.

Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.

If everyone is getting money, no one is getting disrespected, and no one is getting hurt, no one should be arguing.

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

The person who did all of these things has gone away, vanished without a trace in the ecstasy of existence.

Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.

I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.

It seems that 'national security' is the root password to the Constitution. As with any dishonest superuser, the best countermeasure is strong encryption.

Never abandon imagination