Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.

I'm not going to get off the pony as long as they let me ride it.

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

Good food and good eating are about risk.

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.

Everything important I learned, I learned as a dishwasher.

You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.