I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.

I am a cookbook fanatic.

The best part about poker is there's no down side.

When you can agree on one thing, you should have no expectation that suddenly a person is converted to your way of thinking. You have to be willing to be frustrated constantly.

I don't feel intimidated by any of the people I'm talking to or the situations I find myself in. I just try to make my nana proud.

Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

I want to go to someone's world. I'll buy it if the world is full of zombies - I'll live there if you give me a strong enough vision of what that world looks like.