I grill, therefore I am.

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.

He said "cool" like I say a Spanish word when I'm not sure of the pronunciation.

She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.

To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other people who may think the way you do.

I think my whole living in vain involves me. I know that the biggest help for me is to help someone else in so many different ways.

If we do not show love to one another, the world has a right to question whether Christianity is true.

Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.

Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.

Trying on jeans is my favorite thing. Maybe later I can get a pap smear from an old male doctor.

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.