My philosophy is "Where is it written that at 40 you give up all your toys?" If I'm still having a great time doing something, I'm going to keep on doing it.

Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too.

Kids want to saute, to cut the pizza, to see how the ingredients come together. If you let them do the fun stuff, they'll develop skills and interests that will stay with them forever.

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

I wanna be the ambassador to Chimichanga Flavor Town.

If you slow it down, eat in courses, your body, mind, stomach will catch up with this full feeling and you won't eat as much.

Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.

You dont have to eat a whole cheeseburger, just take a piece of the cheeseburger.

No matter how tough the meat may be, it's going to be tender if you slice it thin enough.

You've got balls inviting me here.

Some people are just born to cook and talk.

...which, of course, is how I developed my love for both Kabuki theater and marshmallow Peeps.

Let the light of your being lit every dark situation.

f you are ready to cry..to feel the pain..to take the risk? You are ready for love

Marriage: a job. Happiness or unhappiness has nothing to do with it.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

I think growing up in Indiana prepares anyone for a life in comedy. I do feel like there is a certain kind of self-effacing cynicism among all Hoosiers.

In art, the best is good enough.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.