“Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me.” — Anthony Bourdain
“Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund.” — Anthony Bourdain
“I should have been dead at 30. I should not, by any rights, be sitting here talking to you.” — Anthony Bourdain
“I wanted adventure. I wanted to go up the Mekong like Conrad's character went up the Congo.” — Anthony Bourdain · Kitchen Confidential, 2000