My family is very far from normal.

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.

If miracles represent prophecy, we must have more prophets in twenty first century than the entire human history.

There is nothing permanent except change.

What we can do for another is the test of powers what we can suffer is the test of love.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

I never quite know when I'm not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber, stop writing." She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.

Life, what is it but a dream?

Being named among the best is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.

When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere.

Do you suppose that God has any need of our works? What God needs is the resoluteness of our will.