[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true.

Naturally, I'm misanthropic. But the Negronis are helping considerably.

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

Cooking breakfast and brunch professionally really kind of ruined breakfast service for me for a long time.

Without new ideas success can become stale

I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that.

In Italy, kids are taken to restaurants very early, they're welcome there, and they learn how to behave. You don't see a lot of screaming crying kids acting out in a restaurant in Italy. They don't put up with that.