I do know I'm a control freak.

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.

We are Spirit Beings walking around in fleshly attire.

Democracy means government by the uneducated while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Behind every successful man is a woman - with nothing to wear.

Companies do not do new things because they understand it but because they feel it.

I hope you slip in a puddle of AIDS and crack your head open

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.

I can't believe I actually was in my own movie.

The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.