I'm not going to get off the pony as long as they let me ride it.

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.

Talent & skills are useless & won't get you anywhere, without lot of practise, commitment & prioritization.

There is no greater grief, than when a parent losses a child.

It takes a rare person to care the same or more about you than themselves. So, until you find that person, please look after yourself.

If you are competing with slaves, then you are a slave yourself.

The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century.

I love going to the G4 sci-fi-type parties.

Mary was not only holy. She was also the mother of the Lord.

I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone . . .

I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

You know that first of all your films have to make money no matter who you are.