I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

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.

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.

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.

Your imagination is your most important tool, as an actor, as cheesy as that sounds.

I continued a legacy of great skating from this country and I was able to capitalize on the reputation of the Canadian skaters that came before me. I especially mean Brian Orser.

Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.

Trust is the glue that holds relationships together.

I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.