There's a couple of universal principles in life. One is, don't ever open a restaurant. One out of every two fails.

Food = joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you look and feel.... Food = everything you can imagine.

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.

My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen.

The more people I meet, the farther out of my own little world I go, the more I see that we are all alike. And there isn't one of us who can afford to pick up the rock in the glass house.

There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now.