There are wonderful things happening all around the world. From Nova Scotia to Kerala, Bristol to Melbourne, and even in the Philippines, zero waste is on the agenda. I think what's particularly inspiring is when communities don't wait to be told what to do but just go ahead and do it.

I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.

I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.

He's a man who... well, one of the great things about Shakespeare is that his characters are inconsistent, and that's something I think makes him a writer above most writers because inconsistency is what we, as people, are full of. We maybe don't see it in ourselves too often, but we are inconsistent.

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.