When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know where I am right away. I'll go to the window, and it doesn't help there either, especially if you're in an anonymous strip and it's the usual Victoria's Secret, Gap, Chili's, Applebee's.

People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear.

Street food, I believe, is the salvation of the human race.

If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people.

An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It's a basic tell of character.

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

Don't touch my d**k, don't touch my knife.