May summer last a hundred years.

Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.

There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.

Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.

If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or even a smart sage.

Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years.

The earliest fisherman catches the fattest fish.

I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

Nobody ever asked me to do anything. Nobody knew what to do. When comics were brand new, nobody knew what kind of comics to make. So you were mostly on your own.

With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.

I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

If life ever ceased to be an educational experience. I probably wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

The Dallas Cowboys are in big trouble.