Writing anything is a treason of sorts.

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.

The only thing that prevents us from being happy is thinking.

Plant in the land of children whatever you wish to see in the life of our times

No more lies and speeches of delusions out of the reality of our existence

The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.

I stopped making films to look after animals.

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.

Connecting people to jobs and to each other is absolutely vital to a city's economy (and to the wider economy).

In times of war, the law falls silent.