I don’t do coupons or Reeboks. Life is too short to half-step.

Soup dumplings, sitcoms, one-night stands--good ones leave you wanting more.

Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn’t Asian either

People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.

For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.

There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.

Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.

But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

America ain’t three fifths bad.

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.

My color is my joy and not my burden...

He was the most beautiful boy I had ever seen in my life. But he really looked like a girl. She was the most beautiful boy I’d ever seen in my life.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

We love kitties, gawd bless their little whiskers, and we don't give a damn whether they or we are superior or inferior! They're confounded pretty, and that's all we know and all we need to know!

We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics.

You can't lay down laws for what people think and hope.

Listen to the compass of your heart. All you need lies within you.

I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.