I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

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.

Change is inevitable! Repentance is the Christian constant!

He does good to himself who does good to his friend.

I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.

As a Senator I am opposed to duelling. As Ben. Wade, I recognize the code.

If the NRA keeps messing with the President's daughters, they're going to have to start worrying about Michelle Obama's guns.

This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.

Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, every other religion teaches salvation through works and merit.

. . .I really ought to have recognized it for what it was and, perhaps, to have stopped right there - for it was nostalgia, and what inspires nostalgia has been dead a long time

A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.

You have to be intense. This only comes from the CEO, this only comes from the founders.