Alton Brown

Parents

"[Cooking] is a primary skill. Feeding yourself is a primary tool of self-reliance on planet earth. If you don't have it you die. Or you're a victim, if you can't feed yourself."
"Anything you make at home is ultimately going to be better for your life than anything you can get outside."
"Time is my favorite ingredient."
"We get so stuck looking for the things we think we want that we miss all the stuff we really ought to be doing because we have these notions of what we are going to do. It's like looking for your keys in your apartment with a telescope."