The day that I die will be by far the most beautiful day I ever lived.

I spend 80% of my time in my restaurants. Taping my TV shows doesn't take much time, and then they get aired a lot. That's the thing people don't realize.

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch - what make you go beyond the norm.

...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you end the obsession because obsession and awareness cannot coexist.

I am an inventor of music.

Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but with other readers.

My job is always going to change; the characters that I'm playing are always going to change. I look forward to playing a grandfather at some point.

Since beings desire to exist, because to exist is a good thing: they desire the One without which they cannot exist.

The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.