One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm interested in how other people live in other places; I'm interested in other cultures.

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 die hating them, that was freedom.

Almost All Christians want to taste the fruits of revival but only a few will do what's necessary to achieve it.

Every day we make the whole world new... Or else grow old.

I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.

Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.

I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

Is to have had and lost/Better than not having at all?

Costs and liabilities are rarely overstated.

The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.