Everything we've been taught about health, weight loss and aging is wrong.

If you want to lose weight, whole-wheat bread, couscous, and quinoa are evil.

A small pepperoni pizza on a tortilla is healthier than salmon teriyaki with rice and carrots.

I'm not against working out. It's just not effective for weight loss. I like strength training to tone and firm the body so you look tight. But working out just makes you hungrier.

The only secret to food combination is a balance of protein, carbs and fat - they all play a key role in our health.

The 3-hour Diet is absolutely safe - in fact it's not a diet, it's a lifestyle! Once you reach your goal weight, you just adjust the portion sizes slightly to maintain that optimal weight.

Every pound of muscle burns approximately 50 calories every day, just doing nothing.

I'm always amazed that people will stand around books for hours and only look at the spine. I think I should write a book called "the power of having a spine" - #metaphor

Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn.

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

Sulking about your mistakes only leads to future ones.

If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna have to write about myself in very, very negative ways.

Purpose is the engine, the power that drives and directs our lives.

Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.

Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health.