The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.

I won't eat in a restaurant with filthy bathrooms. This isn't a hard call. They let you see the bathrooms. If the restaurant can't be bothered to replace the puck in the urinal or keep the toilets and floors clean, then just imagine what their refrigeration and work spaces look like.

I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.

I'm excited by any food that's prepared by someone who's proud of what they're doing, who puts a personal imprint on food.

In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we love in insidious fashion.

We learn as professionals by repetition, by getting it wrong, getting yelled at and doing it again.

I'd like to make a show with Keith Richards.