I'd like to play bass like Bootsy Collins. I'm serious. That would be my dream.

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

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

The fact of the matter is that, for years, the restaurant and service industry has been, to a great extent, built on the backs of often underpaid immigrants of often dubious legal status.

What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies are in next season, that's what's on your plate. And I think that's a good thing, because we know, obviously, about food.

You dropped a 500-seat deuce on Times Square.

There's something not normal about you if you're writing a book about yourself, or about anything. And if you're the kind of person who can deal with being recognized by strangers and if that's tolerable or pleasing to you, and not immediately terrifying, that's not normal either.