“Meaning is not what happens, but what you do with what happens.”

“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, “You have to taste this.” We say, “Please, take a bite.”

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

“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.”

“Meaning is not what happens, but what you do with what happens.”