“To trust in your own aliveness, in your own ability to sustain and be sustained - there are times when there is no greater act of defiance.”

“When I visit someplace new my favorite thing to do is eat...and walk, preferable to a place where I can eat some more.”

“Foodlike art, like music brings people together, its true. It begins, though, with a private experience, a single person stirred, moved, and wanting company in that altered stated. So we say, You h...”

“Food—like art, like music— brings people together, it’s true. It begins, though, with a private experience, a single person stirred, moved, and wanting company in that altered stated. So we say, “Y...”

“Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.”

“Pride be damned, we do what must be done to survive.”

“I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have a pretty good sense of comic thing, so I'd really like to try that.”

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

“My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.”

“There are 1,198,500,000 people alive now in China. To get a feel for what that means, simply take yourself - in all your singularity, importance, complexity, and love - and multiply by 1,198,500,00...”