If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it.

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’m always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

I'd never done anything useful as far as my writing.

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

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.

My daughter takes pride in showing up with stuff that other kids envy or are freaked out by, so I send her to school with grilled octopus.