“I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.”

“You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.”

“When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems.”

“I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.”

“I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.”

“I'm obsessed with food!”

“If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.”

“I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.”

“A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don't have to buy the knife I have. You don't have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen.”