I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

I need the anesthetic qualities of the local fire water.

Regret is something you’ve got to just live with, you can’t drink it away. You can’t run away from it. You can’t trick yourself out of it. You’ve just got to own it.

Italy is hard to beat. It's a family-friendly experience, they like to see kids in restaurants, and at dinner you see all the adults at the table and all the kids at the other end of the table. Maybe they run off and go play.

There's something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar - even in this fake-ass Irish pub.

I love bacon, but I don't think we need it on everything.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.