Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

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.

Everything you ever needed to know is waiting in the space between your thoughts.

It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.

Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.

Everything I do I get criticized, but I don't care because that's the stuff I believe in and put my heart in to.

It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.

So I went to a club the other day, which is timely because my self esteem had been hovering right around 'normal' and I had been meaning to knock it down to negative 1000.

The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got The Devil Wears Prada, and its why I even got in the door for Mad Men.

All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.