I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city.

Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.

With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.