I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.
“I'm an adventurer and I enjoy all types of things, and eating is a part of that. It's just too bad we have to watch what we eat.”