America's most dangerous export was, is and always will be our fast-food outlets.

Don't dunk your nigiri in the soy sauce. Don't mix your wasabi in the soy sauce. If the rice is good, complement your sushi chef on the rice.

your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.

I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.

The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.

Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.

I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This was valuable information.

How my adventures become your sins?

A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.

Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

The Way is hidden and nameless. Still only the Way nourishes and completes.

As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.

The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach.

His fingers never ceased to amaze me. They could break a man's neck, bandage a wound, and slide sensually across bare skin.

Human beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in.

I think the Americans fished out the same condom but found it had too many holes in it.

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he's very much for women's rights.