The older I get, and the more I travel in particular, the less I care about what exactly is in the dish than who's cooking it and why.

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.

If you don't know what's respect, I think that you will end up like, "It's not a Happy".

I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

You look at these kids...thousands and thousands of kids...and you stop and think, how can you not care?

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Necessity is literally the mother of invention.

But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean, it's such a solo endeavour.

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason