But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair.

Don’t wait for miracles but believe and be so strong enough in invisible virtues like faithfulness.

Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.

Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.

I do dance music, and I can be pretty camp myself from time to time.

There are no shortcuts. NONE.

There's a little wire work, which is so much fun. You can fly, it's amazing. But I've had to mostly just sort of kung fu, you know, ground work. Footwork and stuff like that.

My uncle developed the training philosophy. His idea of good tennis training is basically quite simple: you must try to gain time.

Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.

I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.