You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

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.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

It is a direction not a destination.

My daddy used to maintain, if you have to use ten-dollar words, what you're trying to say isn't worth a dime.

The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.

In case of doubt, push on just a little further and then keep on pushing.

The key to a long and healthy marriage is that, honestly, there's nothing worth fighting about.

My mind is constantly in five different places, but golf is great because it forces you to focus completely and purely on what you're doing.

I haven't forgotten where I came from.

The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God.

Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours.