Memory is, of course, a trickster.

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.

We must be careful with our words – we’re like superheroes and words are like our super powers. Super powers should always be used to help others…

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

I have studied this Book, and I would never even dream of saying I've come to the bottom of the Word of God.

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.

Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime.

People who buy government debt deserve to be punished and taught a lesson

I think camping is one of those things where if you're forced into it as a child, you'll probably hate it as an adult.

I think I've always wanted to be a role model, and I think ... everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model. I think it's like the thing keeping me out of jail.

We all start with zero. We all start at the beginning. Do not give up.