When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out.

Always entertain the possibility that something, no matter how squiggly and scary looking, might just be good.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

I can't do exercises regularly because my schedule changes from day to day. I'm okay with hurting myself, like I'll lift something until it hurts, but I don't want to pass out or vomit in front of people.

There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.

I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.