I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat.

I just didn’t want to be pigeonholed as an 'ethnic comic' or an 'Asian comic.' I just wanted to be on the same playing field as everyone else.

Sometimes you gotta work a little, so you can ball a lot.

I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment.

I like going out and I like being single, but a growing part of me would rather just stay home, cook food with someone I really like, and do nothing.

Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.

Do you realize how much better the world would be if we all just treated each other the same way black dudes treat magicians?

I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.

One of the big things I miss about New York is not my friends so much; it's Shake Shack, the burger place. I miss Shake Shack.

You’re a feminist if you go to a Jay Z and Beyoncé concert, and you’re not like, ‘Mmm, I feel like Beyoncé should get 23 percent less money than Jay Z'.

I have never taken the high road, but I tell other people to 'cause then there's more room for me on the low road.

An opportunity is a miracle waiting to happen.

I spy, with my little eye, something that starts with ... G.""Sausages.

Real people are made out of a whole lot of things—flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words.

People want things to be real. If you give them an excuse, they'll believe you.

When times get tough, and you are feeling isolated, remember that you are not alone.

The way I would measure leadership is this: of the people that are working with me, how many wake up in the morning thinking that the company is theirs?

I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut.

I think the Earth and everything around it is connected - the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery.

... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.