I do my very best to avoid shark fin.

When you have a child you're no longer the star of the movie.

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

I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.

I could eat bloody Elvis - if you put enough vinegar on him.

I didn't want food that looked unapproachable or ridiculously beautiful.

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.