There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

I wanted to write.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

We don’t make music – it makes us.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

Bob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

I always wanted to be loved.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

I dote on his very absence.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

I don’t need you to be funny. I don’t want to be entertained.

I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

I did this book ‚Harvest for Hope,‘ and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things.

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

Great loves too must be endured.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!