As Americans, we tend to look at Mexican food as nachos, which is not Mexican food really - they don't eat them.

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.

Long ago, I stopped buying- let alone reading, books that talk about organizational success but fail to emphasize the importance of TRUST

Language lacks the power to describe Faith.

There’s something so great about this, ” she whispers. About what?” I whisper back.About this, ” she whispers. About being outlaws. It’s just you and me—against the world.

[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.

Patience! patience! You are always in a hurry, but God is not.

Gratitude is something you show in relation to others.

What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old.

In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol.

To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge.

There is always that dream of escape, but there is no place to escape to, you just run into yourself.