I didn't want food that looked unapproachable or ridiculously beautiful.

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.

Today every believer has the potential to become a savior and a deliverer in his own area of specialization if only he/she make himself available

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.

I don't believe in hours and hours of meditation. The mind gets tired and starts to fold in on itself.

The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified.

Christ is the aperture through which the immensity and magnificence of God can be seen.

Change is not a one-way street- it involves two parties: the person who is changing and the people who notice it.

But not all of them are decorated to the same level of taste.

The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T have, is the ability to use deadly force to accomplish its goals.

The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.