If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

I didn't want food that looked unapproachable or ridiculously beautiful.

Drink heavily with locals whenever possible.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.

If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.