I'd like to make a show with Keith Richards.

I do my very best to avoid shark fin.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn't actually doing any writing.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

Luck is not a business model.

It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and whats happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there - with your eyes open - and lived to see it.