Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

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.

To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.

This planet is for everyone, borders are for no one. It's all about freedom.

Live everyday as though it's your last 'cause one day you'll be right.

In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.

We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true north.

A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb.

The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness.

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

Popular is not the same important, or often, not the same as good.

The basic trouble is that people make statements without sufficient data.