The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

You are what what you eat eats.

Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup

[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

Nurture youroriginality, don’t ever bury itaway.

My first time on stage was the class "graduation" at the Comedy Store. It was awesome. Everything got huge laughs and I just thought I knew how to do comedy.

The chase of gain is rich in hate

Don't lose your temper; use it.

Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.

You have to have a short memory as a closer.

We loved each other in the same difficult, unusable way where you took turns doing it, instead of ever managing to do it at the same time.

Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.

If you are honest with yourself and if you want to like what you see in the mirror, is you have to say what you really believe.

Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.