I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

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.

Don't believe in anyone other than yourself - every other will start believing in you.

Raising teenage sons and daughters is a long and tiresome journey. With God's help the final outcome will be worthwhile.

Beauty is nothing without brains & heart.

I was a let-er-goer and she was a hanger-on-er, but that doesn't mean I don't lean into her territory every once in a while.

The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.

If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.

Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche.