If people are working only rice and beans for much of their diet, it says something.

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.

If you are in the business of revenge, then you better dig two graves.

Always turn and face the attack.

Being human in the digital world is about building a digital world for humans.

I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.

A bet is a bet and I always keep my word in the bet what I do.

But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.

When the #‎ mind is strong and the #‎ heart is pure, you are free

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

In your very nature, in the depth of your mind, there is omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience. All knowledge is already in the depth of your consciousness, of your mind.

Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.