I’m always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

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.

Slumber party with Dracula, all things considerd why not?

Greatness is inspiring others to be their best.

The slow rhythm of waiting.

My mom is such a big supporter of mine. She still is, and always was. So I got the sort of encouragement from that side of the family.

Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.

Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

You can't trust the 'specials' like the old time 'coppers' When you can't find your way home.

No one is satisfied with their life's work.

Effort is between you and you.