I'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen.

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.

The truth is .. I'm okay with people not liking me. I'm not okay with them pretending that they do. Keep it real. Everybody ain't for everybody.

Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.

My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work.

There are secrets within secrets, though--always.

Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

I always have dashi in my refrigerator—it's the almighty Japanese ingredient.

England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.

Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle.

Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.

History must stay open, it is all humanity.