The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it.

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.

Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.

Success is what sells.

AB de Villiers reminds me of my young days, What a Player!

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

We are not responsible for what we do; we are ignorant of our acts until we accomplish them.

The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower.

It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.

I am absolutely confident that St. Louis can attract major players in technology and make the companies that are here blossom.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Even if I was a Republican, George Bush would have pushed me out of that party.