There are no bad foods, only bad food habits.

A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.

I can’t talk about anything or write about anything if I don’t understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

I'm too tired to hate.

I feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it.

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it.