I wouldn't mind being taller, because when I'm in the company of people who are absurdly tall, there's something about them that I can't help admiring.

Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way.

In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.

The only kind of restaurant I could imagine doing would be the extraordinarily snooty restaurant with three or four tables, and I would cook what I felt like cooking. And you could eat it or not.

I think good-looking naked ladies turn on the majority of men.

Over the last thirty years or so, I have definitely become more enlightened about corners of the social spectrum that I had less exposure to as a young man. I've interacted with more poor people, more minorities and more sexual minorities. As you get more people from different backgrounds involved in your life, you get a broader perspective and you're less cavalier about your opinions.

New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.