I wanted it to look like real cooking in someone's real home or just so out-of-there bizarre that it would be fun.

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.

You can only be free if I am free.

I crave the simple life. A life where all I need is love and you.

The sun is setting on the New Republic, ” Leia said. “It's time for the Resistance to rise.

Giving posts a second look makes them twice as good. It's good netiquette. NetworkEtiquette.net

When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.

The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.

I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.

Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left.

I consider myself a novice film actor.

You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.