Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

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.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work.

Recording an album and doing it live are like two different animals. There are some people that are great singers live, horrible in the studio.

Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.

I tend to place my own value in spirituality rather than religiosity.

Though science has given us many marvels, it has also spoiled many of our pleasant dreams.

The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.

The diverse religions and races bring beauty to the world if we truly understand in our hearts the essence of who we are and what we stand for. And that really is the essence of spirituality.

If you'd see my schedule, you'd know I have no time to slow down.

Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.