Anthony Bourdain

“Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those...”

“I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.”

“If you've ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you'll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than women.”

“Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.”

“I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement...”

“I don't think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that's unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wa...”

“If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.”

“The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous...”

“Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.”

“You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.”

“I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.”

“I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyon...”

“I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.”

“For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There's a beautiful i...”

“I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.”

“I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking.”

“I'm not searching for hard news; I'm not a journalist, but I'm interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it's a big world and CNN...”

“I make friends faster and easier than journalists.”

“You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.”

“I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times.”