I pre-screen restaurants because my objective is to never have a bad meal, and I get pretty close to that.

I have like 10 different processes I go to. My favorite one is to just go to an obscure neighborhood I haven't been to in decades and just wander around.

If I go into a restaurant and the food sucks I feel so depressed I just want to carve it in my wrist with the butter knife.

You can't write about a horrible restaurant - if it's a Ma & Pa restaurant no one wants to see you kick Ma & Pa in the chops.

If a restaurant fumbles once I don't have to hold it against them, anyone can have a bad night.

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

You can't be the cause and the cure, mon amour.

Quality of work is directly related to the quality of a person's character.

I am a writer, I write what I feel and what like.

I'm trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.

Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.

I want to go outside and play.

We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.