Now my wife may think she's locked me out of the kitchen but MacGyver's not my patron saint for nothing.

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.

All of life comes in seed form – not as monuments.

If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.

Pity's tears are spontaneous.

Musical theater must adapt to the fact that music is done by people. The new generation will do something different. That is great! That is good.

I was always more of an academic than a jock.

Some people take drugs in a quest for spirituality.

Every fashion photographer is completely different; the fact that they are so different is what makes it fun. You don't want to get bored.

I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.

I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters.

Tempus fugit (time flies).