Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.

People everywhere have been very, very good to me, whether I'm with or without cameras.

I think we should increase the minimum wage and I think $15 is a good beginning.

I couldn't imagine a more unreliable, more unprofitable way to make a living than writing. My advice? Show up, do the best you can. Keep your day job. If you get a lucky break, don't f*** up. It was helpful to be older because I had made all the really stupid mistakes already.

I wanted it to look like real cooking in someone's real home or just so out-of-there bizarre that it would be fun.

You know, it's not the world I would have wanted, for sure.

You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.