I'm too tired to hate.

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.

... one could find plenty of intelligent women in the world if one were willing to look.

Ignorance need not remove the crown on the head of a king before making him a slave

Live each day to the fullness, live the life that you imagine.

Reinforce what you want to see repeated.What gets rewarded gets done.

I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.

Maybe it was better to just go on believing everything was OK, even when really bad things were just about to happen.

Avoidance is a wonderful therapy

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.