It's been about a week without alcohol of any kind. I'm enjoying my new, clean-living lifestyle.

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.

History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.

There is no stronger or weaker…. You’re strong in the moment when you go right to the end for the cause you are defending.

every day a million miracles begin at sunrise!

Throw your heart into the picture and then jump in after it.

I took the wife out last night; one punch!

In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent.

It's a Vietnamese soup that answers the question, 'What happens when a former child soldier pours hot rain water over fish nightmares.' It's delicious and I can't stop eating it, that's what happens.

Ill give you an idea of how Jewish Mel Brooks is: Thats a nose job.

I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.

The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.