I'm not afraid to look like an idiot on TV.

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.

Love is heavenly.Expression of love gives us the sweetest joy and deepest fulfillment.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

We grow small trying to be great.

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

The women rest their tired half-healed hearts; they are almost well.

I don't think I've shied away from anybody. I'm not scared. I respect hitters, but I'm not afraid.

Islamic State is mainly a direct result of the failure in Syria. That's where IS has grown. That's where IS spread from.

It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.

"Oscillate Wildly" is in many ways a story of first love and how it challenges our hero's guarded sense of what's possible.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.