I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.

Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot.

I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world.

For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?

That's what you love about the stories, he just gets into all this mischief and goes into all the places that every kid wants to do and, I think, even a lot of adults do as well.