I'm certainly dismayed by what I'm seeing now. There's a lot of ugliness of a kind I've never seen in my lifetime, or heard in my lifetime. But, look, I'm a romantic. I'm hopeful.

The cookbooks I value the most in my collection are the ones where you hear the author's voice and point-of-view in every recipe.

Where once they used to say, 'Cocaine is God's way of saying you have too much money' - now, maybe EDM is. Come ye lords and princelings of douchedom.

Drink heavily with locals whenever possible.

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

I look at Guy Fieri and I just think, 'Jesus, I'm glad that's not me.'

As you move through this life...you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you.