There are no bad foods, only bad food habits.

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.

Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll.

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

Bringing the IRS to heel can start with re-energizing and expanding congressional investigations and holding accountable those responsible for the targeting and other abuses.

What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing.

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental.

I've had the same friends for ten, fifteen years.

Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

Make peace with what is.

Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.