My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.

I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person, that's when things go wrong.

Bacon is like a good pair of Levi's-it never goes out of style.

If you learn a recipe, you can cook the recipe. If you learn the technique, you can cook anything.

Whats more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.

Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make.

In Cleveland, I'm so fortunate that we're surrounded by farms with an endless variety of beautiful vegetables. For me, I always eat very tightly with the season, even if the season is only six weeks.

My father cried when I said I wanted to be a chef.

Eating chicken without skin is like riding a bike without wheels

I think that's what being a chef is all about: camaraderie and teamwork. I never feel that it should be so cutthroat that you can't help the other chefs.

Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Sometimes you have to give people a taste of their own medicine.

I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.

How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.

I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way of narrating - it's just a media type.

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling

Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.

Refreshing honesty has been getting me in trouble since I was five, but it's probably had some positive effects - like not being a liar.