I am very much enjoying the fatherhood phase of my life.

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.

Embrace the pain, Sharum.

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.

I hope to direct a few more films before I leave the planet, so I hope I can find the material.

I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.

Nowadays, you form your beliefs to fit your behavior, not the other way around.

One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.

I live like a crazy old pack rat.

I always said that I'm not into mass-marketing things. If there's one thing that looks cool, that's fine by me. I'm not interested in a whole bunch of stuff.