Cooking is mythology - a story told over and over, passed on again and again, always with the same meaning but expressed in endlessly different ways.

We all eat & it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.

Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors in the kitchen than we ever will from a book.

When there is very little else left to believe in, one can still believe in an honest loaf of fragrant, home-baked bread.

Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That is why I don't eat flesh. I see no need for killing.

Great depth of beingness and creativity often come with great woundedness.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

America allows us to be able to dream, then gives us the ability to achieve those dreams.

My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating.

I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.

My job, at the very least, doesn't change at all.

Each of us creates his or her own life largely by our attitude.

If we immerse ourselves in the ultimate good, we will have this silly smile on our face or perhaps just inside our hearts. That is what illumination is.

Faith in God - life can never take you by surprise again.

God, the king of artists, was clumsy.