The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.

I will not get very far with this attitude.

Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they'd work.

I had a working mother. She worked for IBM. My dad lived in another town - not very far away, but another town. So food was - I guess food was my friend.