“Actually, I am loathe to admit, but I also remember freshman year of Emory – and I’m so sorry to have to admit this – but there was a Domino’s Pizza in Emory Village, where I went to college, and I was ordering a pizza.”

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.

A kid wrote to me through Facebook because they started a team in honor of their friend who died of leukemia, and he played in the band of this very obscure team in England.

. You don’t have to come at me like that.” But yeah, I’ve tried tendon. Tendon eventually yields.

Did you see The Never-Ending Story? That’s one kick-ass dragon. It’s basically a giant puppy dragon.

I was 12 or 13, and I had seen a demo about origami at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Gratitude is the attitude. That’s the thing.

I’m not kidding you, to utter these words aloud is so surreal to me – but to say, “I had to give up my Super Bowl tickets for my all-expense paid research trip to Argentina’s wine country,”

You can change your spouse, your friends but never your club.

The play is called Stalking The Bogeyman. It was a story on This American Life, and my former roommate is the artistic director of the New York Repertory Theater.

Now I’m on a mouth-watering journey to find America’s greatest pig-out spots.

I think the most surreal moment for me having been a kid who was on unemployment, was on food stamps

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.

The failed intention of a masterful ally. But, nevertheless, as they burden you with a vexing brand of love.

I’d like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.

Staying healthy is about really listening to your mind and body.

You don’t even have to have a good product.

From the Arabs I have learned one thing: if you are led by Authority, that means you are led by a halter.

That you have to do the heavy lifting while you’re here. And when you don’t, well, you suffer the consequences.