I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the day progresses.

Whatever everyone else has asked you to do or never let you do, and let's do that.

I eat strategically. If I know I'm having a big Chinese banquet tomorrow, I'm not eating a big dinner tonight, and I'm not having breakfast.

[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true.

I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful.

I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking.

Always entertain the possibility that something, no matter how squiggly and scary looking, might just be good.