Drugs didn't work out too well for me.

For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.

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

As Americans, we tend to look at Mexican food as nachos, which is not Mexican food really - they don't eat them.

Cooking breakfast and brunch professionally really kind of ruined breakfast service for me for a long time.

I can't do exercises regularly because my schedule changes from day to day. I'm okay with hurting myself, like I'll lift something until it hurts, but I don't want to pass out or vomit in front of people.

Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security is boredom and therefore sickness and one exists in the present, in that enormous present which is without past or future, memory or planned intention.