I think we should increase the minimum wage and I think $15 is a good beginning.

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.

As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.

Bad habits have brought me this far: why change such a tried-and-true formula?

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

There are so many glowing reasons to feel the joy of life and to be happy.

What is a man but another man's memory

Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)

People don't realize that there's no label and everything is self-financed and we make do and do our own thing. I was just happy to do my first video, I thought it was a fun experience.

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.

People with a lot of theological study and no prayer life are dangerous... and not in a good way.

We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in.