Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine.

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.

Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.

Make enthusiasm a way of life. Make optimism a way of success. Make gratitude a way of happiness.

Awww, that's sweet. Nothing says ‘I love you’ like a well-made implement of pain.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice.

America is far less safe and the world is far less stable than when Obama made the decision to pub Hillary Clinton in charge of America's foreign policy.

May God welcome the dead into his peace, comfort the families and convert the hearts of the violent ones, who do not even stop before children.

I don't think you can really expect to win a hockey game giving up three power-play goals. In reality, you cant give up those and that's the difference in the hockey game.