Having been a chef for some many years, I understand what it's like to work really, really hard to get good at something, only to have someone piss all over it.

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.

So it's over I guess they are in love or do they just think it huh.

Your Heart Can't Be Depends On Some one else's heartbeat .

Nothing is so healing as the human touch.

The hardest thing, as a director, is that it's never right. Nothing you do is ever right. It's never exactly how you envision it. Making a movie is about making it better.

If you can't keep quiet, shut up!

Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking!

My films are about the little things that happen between people that are sometimes far more valuable and insightful than the big dramatic things that happen.

The releasing of attachment to object and certain beliefs was already indelibly written as a very necessary step in my human progress toward being.

To get nowhere, follow the crowd.

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.