I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

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.

Leadership is influencing others through modeling.

You can get what you want in life.You must reach out with all your heart.

Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.

People who have undergone a loss get a fair amount of leeway on their behavior.

What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

I’m a morning person and a night person. So I have to be a nap person, or else I’m a tired person.

When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.

Most people think of ballet as children in little tutus. They don't know it is sweat, blood and tears as well!

It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me.

A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.