In my house, neither my wife nor my daughter are impressed that I'm on television, and they remind me of that frequently.

One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing.

In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we love in insidious fashion.

There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military.

I won't eat in a restaurant with filthy bathrooms. This isn't a hard call. They let you see the bathrooms. If the restaurant can't be bothered to replace the puck in the urinal or keep the toilets and floors clean, then just imagine what their refrigeration and work spaces look like.

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

I'm really happy to see the explosion of interest in Korean food, and this hybrid Korean-American food.