“I sponsored every team in the Park Slope Little League for years.”

Suddenly I was staying there and hiking there, and we took a mini iceberg out of the water and chipped it up and used it as ice cubes and made cocktails with it. It’s surreal.

I think that in terms of who is known the world over, I would wager that it’s probably someone like Mark Wahlberg or Dwyane Wade.

It was like, who’s life is this? It was splendid, and the nice thing was that they renewed my contract for another year.

What they’re saying is, “I know who you are. I watch your stuff.” What’s better than that? Gratitude is the attitude. That’s the thing. What am I being pissy about?

This is my ultimate hunger quest. This is Man v. Food.

I’m Adam Richman. A food fanatic who’s held nearly every job in the restaurant biz.

I’m a big soccer fanatic, and although I support a team called Tottenham Hotspur in London –

It’s not just the end of a chicken leg, it really is – imagine the cartilage of game meat.

It’s by a brilliant reporter named David Holthouse.

Generally speaking, there’s a difference. Moose nose is just pure cartilage.

To be asked to do the pairing menus by Alamos Wineries in Argentina [was the most interesting opportunity].

I said “I’ve had pho,” and then he goes, “Oh, what do you get, the number one big bowl?” I was like, “Come on, man

I’ve always been a massive Beastie Boys fan, so if you look at their style aesthetic on Check Your Head, that was the headspace I was in for a minute. Whatever that was, that was me.

If something is nice about you, usually one or two people will tell you. If something is foul about you, everyone will tell you.

They had these really sick origami books with an overleaf, but those packs can sometimes blow, because they give you, like, eight sheets.

I’m not a plumber who accidentally blew up or a math professor who accidentally backed into notoriety.

I stayed for lunch for extra tutoring, gave kids my cell phone, and was available. In my first year of teaching,

I didn’t tell my kids, ‘You have to play viola, and you have to play piano.’ They chose these things on their own, and I don’t think we have to give kids every choice, but we do have to give them some choice because that autonomy is crucial for fostering passion.

The reason you want your kids to pay attention in school is you haven’t the faintest idea how to do their homework.

A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.

Every kid has something they’re good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.

I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I’d draw a big ram’s head, really messy.

I like kids’ work more than work by real artists any day.

When you’re accustomed to wealth, you don’t show it, right? That’s why the white kids in school could wear bummy sneakers; it’s almost like, ‘Don’t show wealth – that’s crass.’