The turkey - my number one thing that people don't get is take that sucker out of the refrigerator about three hours before you plan on cooking 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.

Morality is the weakness of the mind.

For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.

The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

I think Donald Trump believes in democracy and the right to change of power.

In life in general, you're never bulletproof, about the time you start thinking that, I always tell people, the karma train will come run you over.

Push me and I will. I’ll get punished, but you’ll still be dead.

Jinnah is a constant source of inspiration for all those who are fighting against racial and group discrimination.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

To have a human form is a joyful thing.