When I write, I LOSE TIME. I'm HAPPY in a way that I have a hard time finding in real LIFE. The INTIMACY between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.

I think New YORK is truly unique in its SINGULAR combination of the quality of both the TALENT it attracts and the ingredients it grows. There are PLENTY of other places in the world with wonderful natural RESOURCES, but the people who come here to pursue their passions for food and cooking - they are one of a kind.

In the the LATE seventies and early eighties, I played background roles in thirty movies... Woody Allen movies, Scorsese films, you NAME it. Whatever was being shot in NEW York, I was doing stand-in and background WORK because I wanted to be CLOSE to the camera; I wanted to see what was going on.

The purpose of this study is to OFFER a LOGICAL, PRACTICAL, PRAGMATIC proof of the existence of God from a PURELY scientific perspective.

When it comes to CHOCOLATE, RESISTANCE is FUTILE.

While THREE MEN HOLD TOGETHER, the kingdoms are LESS by three.

I tell my STUDENTS, even if you are an OPINION JOURNALIST, your opinion should be BASED on FACTS.

The IDEAS of an AGE are most abundant where they are not CROWDED by ORIGINAL ideas.

Moderators MAY TAKE flak - but, HEY, that's PART of what we SIGN up for.

I feel like, at the END of the day, I always would try to MAKE MUSIC that I wanted to LISTEN to: stuff that I liked and wanted to hear.

I had been READING magazines a lot, and I love magazines, and so I was always ASKING myself why is it that these gorgeous articles just don't translate well to the WEB? Presentation was one ASPECT of it.

I loved 'Friday Night LIGHTS' because it was totally COMMITTED to EVERY facet of its STORYTELLING. INCREDIBLE actors, story lines that weren't easy or predictable. It made me laugh, and it broke my heart over and over again.

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver LINING in the MIDDLE of everything that HAPPENS in life.

Being on the COVER of a magazine with my SON is the best thing EVER. It took me 18 years to GET my first cover, he gets one at 8 MONTHS.