As you move through this life...you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you.

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 we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo.

What can you do when everyone around you is strong and clever?

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

Senator Walsh has a long history of fighting for Montanans, both at home and in combat. He deserves respect for his courage on our behalf.

I finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.

Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.

I've never really had a media edifice supporting me.

You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you have, be, and do in the tomorrow of your life.