Lumps are caused by one thing and one thing alone - the improper addition of a starch.

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.

They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.

What you dream of, you will possess.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.

On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut.

The road to nowhere leads to me.

Divorce sucks. Let me tell you, after five years of marriage, it is devastating to have the person with the good credit move out.

Be at peace in the oneness of things, and all errors will disappear by themselves.

Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I'm human. It was less painful being strangled.