I measure everything, because I always think that if I've spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot?

I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.

Anyone who tries to make brownies without butter should be arrested.

Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.

Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.

People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.

You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.

Fun is the most important. If you do stuff for money, it never works out.

Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.

Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that simply knocks me out.

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.

Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

All the time nature is trying to tell us things and we blur her greatness with our little thoughts, our feebleness and flesh.

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?'

Sometimes I think, 'To hell with acting' and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop. Acting is much cooler.

Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you.

The society, is, a dishwasher, where all the water, is, dead chipmunk blood. God I'm brilliant.