Drugs didn't work out too well for me.

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.

If you have something standing between you and your goals, don't wait for it to move... go around it.

What we want for others doesn't work unless they want it for themselves.

The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.

The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.

Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

Transitions are critically important. I want the reader to turn the page without thinking she's turning the page. It must flow seamlessly.

Fear tolerated is faith contaminated.

People destroy what they love.

A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.

I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.