People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear.

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.

How you choose to live is one of the best indicators of the future you will have.

Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha.

It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.

Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.

I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.

O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.

The most difficult thing about being well known? Getting out of a hotel room at 4am.

Domesticity and all that isn't really for me.

Nature is not anthropomorphic.

You need to be happy with yourself or you'll never be able to be happy in a relationship.