I'm really happy to see Filipino cuisine starting to really take hold outside of the Pinoy community.

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.

I don’t know why it’s not universally acknowledged that looking back is a terrible idea. It only makes going forward that much harder.

The only thing worse than a known enemy is an unfriendly friend. You place your trust on him or her as a friend, not knowing that you are placing your trust on a secret enemy.

I don't think 'Survivor' really changed me.

The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential.

Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else.

Like most kids, you don't want to do what your folks want you to do. You've got your own thing.

Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.

But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions.

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love even to our enemies, we destroy their darkness and hatred.