Cooking breakfast and brunch professionally really kind of ruined breakfast service for me for a long time.

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.

Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?

We've made our decisions, We've taken our choices, What's left, is only a hand-full of emotions.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It's a matter of survival.

I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasnt.

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.

In his speech last night, John Kerry said this was the beginning of the end of the Bush administration. I agree. Sure, it may take another five years, but this is it.

You have GREATNESS within you, and responsibility to manifest that greatness!

I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad.

Neil Sullivan has stopped absolutely everything have thrown at him...Wimbledon 1, Manchester United 1.