I'm in San Francisco because of the energy, the ideas, and the fact that this is a great place for me to land. When I'm traveling and working nationally, I love coming back here.

I think that if everyone did at least embrace a more plant-centered diet, it would improve public health.

What makes the farmers market such a special place is that you are actually creating community around food.

Given that it takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat, I think we can also go a long way toward ending hunger and saving the environment as well.

I don't necessarily think veganism is going to save the world.

Given that I'm from the South, I wanted to do something to address that. I have been focusing more energy and resources on addressing those issues.

I'm not going anywhere.

Each morning offers lessons in light. For the morning light teaches the most basic of truths: Light chases away darkness.

A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.

You are what your record says you are.

Mothers aren't allowed to have favorite children!

It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives.

An artist is an explorer.

I believe in blood, sweat and tears.

Knowledge comes from our senses, extend our senses and we extend our knowledge. Let's stop building apps for mobile phones and start building apps for our bodies.

Sooner or later usually means too late