"I pray that you win, that you never ever pay for any of my sins"

“Reading can take you places you have never been before.”

“When you live life with him or without him, that is when he will accept and value you for who you are.”

“Threads that drift alone will sometimes simply twine themselves together, without need for spindle or distaff: brought into each other’s ambit, they bind themselves tight with the force of their own torsion. And this same torsion can, in the course of things, bundle the resulting cord back upon itself, ravelling it up into a skein, returning to the point of its beginning.”

“George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.”

“Finally the world would see my full range of comedy characters - from grouchy librarian to Russian librarian.”

“If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.”

“I think Chris Paul is a great player. He is very unselfish and plays very hard, so he would be a guy if he plays. I think his hand is still questionable, though. I hear they are talking about resting him that weekend. I'm excited to play with all the guys. Marvin Williams is starting to play well, and Salim Stoudamire, I think he should be there.”

Source : Interview with Victor Kelly, www.ign.com. February 8, 2006.

“You know we fixate on the food so much itself: “Oh, the ultimate brownie or the ultimate this or that” -- well, let me tell you something: It’s all poop in about 12 hours, okay? The real power that food has is its ability to connect human beings to each other -- that’s the stuff right there and, to me, everything else is secondary to that.”

Source : "13 Questions With Alton Brown". Interview with "AskMen" Editors, www.askmen.com.