I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.

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.

Kindness is as simple as being grateful for the love anyone has shown you, by not destroying them because it isn't on your terms.

On immigration, Trump needs an articulate policy that aims to secure the border and keep out illegals while letting in skilled legal workers.

Either one fails in one's art or in one's life.

The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.

I always choose to do the thing that scares me.

If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.

A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.