I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking.

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.

Smile to be a flower of joy.

Having had nothing, I will not settle for crumbs.

I want to kiss the bottom of the ocean before I burst through its surface into the sunlight. Otherwise I'll always be wondering about what was left unseen at the bottom.

If you live long enough there's no line that you won't cross.

She is increasingly of the opinion that worrying about problems doesn't help solve them, but she hasn't really found an alternative yet. Surely you can't just leave them there.

I spend most of my time wearing uncomfortable things, so for me, it's all about trainers.

Any time you're working in the world of taming animals, you're going to get hurt. But it's a rush that we get.

The institution of marriage is obsolete.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

At the end I couldn't hear what the Queen was saying to me. But it was just great to see her lips moving.