In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

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.

Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.

I may be clean cut on the outside, but make no mistake." He moved even closer, close enough to see her pulse jump at the base of her neck. "I like to get very, very dirty when nobody's looking.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

I don't think we ever clash but we do become frosty.

Wherever the wings of love take me, that is my flare path and my way.

Of course, every time I end a book, I look down at myself and I'm just the same. I'm always disappointed that I'm just the same, but not enough to never do it again!

I guess if I wrote a book one day, it would be about hair

I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure.

A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.

I cannot smell mothballs because it's so difficult to get their little legs apart.