“for the rest of my life- to resemble this one: both complex and strangely comforting.” — Anthony Bourdain Comforting Copy Share Image
The Italians seem to have a better attitude with kids and the food is great! — Anthony Bourdain Attitude Copy Share Image
Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
People everywhere have been very, very good to me, whether I'm with or without cameras. — Anthony Bourdain Cameras Copy Share Image
I'm not going to get off the pony as long as they let me ride it. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.” — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write… — Anthony Bourdain Breath Copy Share Image
“I believe I should be able to treat my hamburger like food, not like infectious fucking medical waste.” — Anthony Bourdain Food Copy Share Image
“I wanted kicks – the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I’d yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I’d found… — Anthony Bourdain Adventure Copy Share Image
I'm a guy who should not have a lot of free time. But when it comes to vacation, I like to pull… — Anthony Bourdain Children Copy Share Image
I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper… — Anthony Bourdain Being Copy Share Image
There's something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar - even in this fake-ass Irish… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around… — Anthony Bourdain Around the world Copy Share Image
I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw… — Anthony Bourdain Childhood Copy Share Image
When your signature dish is hamburger in between a doughnut, and you've been cheerfully selling this stuff knowing all along that you've… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I don't think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that's unreasonable. I think the normal human body… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I've seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
As incisively pointed out in the documentary Food Inc.," an overwhelmingly large percentage of "new," healthy," and "organic" alternative food products are… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and… — Anthony Bourdain Anonymous Copy Share Image
I guess my whole life, as much as I might have wanted a child for the reason that everybody wants one, I… — Anthony Bourdain Children Copy Share Image
I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
On the plane, I like to read fiction set in the location I'm going to. Fiction is in many ways more useful… — Anthony Bourdain Books Copy Share Image
Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
What is left of the poor? Try to buy a fresh f**king vegetable in West Baltimore. It is a not completely inconceivable… — Anthony Bourdain Baltimore Copy Share Image
I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer. — Anthony Bourdain Chef Copy Share Image
If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business. — Anthony Bourdain Business Copy Share Image
In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Under 'Reasons for Leaving Last Job', never give the real reason, unless it's money or ambition.” — Anthony Bourdain Career Copy Share Image
Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous. — Anthony Bourdain Affair Copy Share Image
“Having a sous-chef with excellent cooking skills and a criminal mind is one of God's great gifts.” — Anthony Bourdain Chef Copy Share Image
I don't snack. I don't generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even before big ones. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I look at Guy Fieri and I just think, 'Jesus, I'm glad that's not me.' — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it. — Anthony Bourdain Control Copy Share Image
Naturally, I'm misanthropic. But the Negronis are helping considerably. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Always entertain the possibility that something, no matter how squiggly and scary looking, might just be good. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
