Jeff Smith quotes:

Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey?

Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable moral superiority about it...

I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons, and yet I also enjoy reading books about science, or the current fiction.

Phoney: Here's your problem Fone Bone! We're off the map! Get a bigger map!

Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures!

The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.

The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one.

It's good to do something for Americans for once.

I prefer the Chinese method of eating. You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.

I love this book! Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom swirls with echoes of cartoon landscapes from the past and present. You can almost hear Percy Gloom's meek, docile little voice. Her writing is so full of wit and charm that we, like the title character, walk dutifully to the edge and fall in. And like Percy, we are rewarded equally with night terrors and secret treasures.

[We need] to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and the tremendous untapped potential in our prisons.

Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class.

CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!

Omit and substitute! That's how recipes should be written. Please don't ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute.

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

I'm so hungry, comrade! It has been days since we ate those two raccoons!' 'I know comrade. I'm even beginning to wish we had some of your homemade quiche!' 'Oh comrade! Do you mean it?' 'Hey--Hey! None of that! If you ever tell anyone I said that, I'll deny it!

How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.

The way I feel about it is: Beat me or feed me, but don't tease me. It's toy food; who needs it? Serve it to toy people.

Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression.

I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.

Upon your feet you have ten toes, they look just like PO-TA-TOES!

Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.

Prisoners learn how to make do with less, and many of them want to take this ingenuity that they've learned to the outside ... but there's no training, nothing to prepare them for that.

I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.

All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't

Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish. Rather than being reprimanded, they were often hauled into the dining room and flogged in the presence of the guests.

I think the audience is truly all ages: I don't put anything in there that kids can't see, or shouldn't see, but I have to keep it interesting for me as an adult

I think people have a little wall they throw up real quick if they see swords and sorcery.

As I got into the animation, as I learned more about the business, I learned that you need a lot of people to do anything animated - even a short, let alone a feature film. And you need a lot of money.

I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.

Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!

I prefer the Chinese method of eating.... You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.

The 20-G Centrifuge is our largest facility certified for use by humans. Its capabilities make it a unique NASA resource and a very versatile research tool that is ideal for developing health-maintenance activities for astronauts.

That's right, kid. Never play an ace if a two will do.

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.