Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.Anthony Bourdain
Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.Anthony Bourdain
I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.Anthony Bourdain
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.Anthony Bourdain
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.Anthony Bourdain
Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund.Anthony Bourdain
I wanted adventures. I wanted to go up the Nung river to the heart of darkness in Cambodia. I wanted to ride out into a desert on camelback, sand and dunes in every direction, eat whole roasted lamb with my fingers. I wanted to kick snow off my boots in a Mafiya nightclub in Russia. I wanted to play with automatic weapons in Phnom Penh, recapture the past in a small oyster village in France, step into a seedy neon-lit pulqueria in rural Mexico. I wanted to run roadblocks in the middle of the night, blowing past angry militia with a handful of hurled Marlboro packs, experience fear, excitement, wonder. I wanted kicks – the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I’d yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I’d found as a little boy in the pages of my Tintin comic books. I wanted to see the world – and I wanted the world to be just like the moviesAnthony Bourdain
If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody.Anthony Bourdain
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn.Anthony Bourdain
The way you make an omelet reveals your character!Anthony Bourdain
Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me ... and others.Anthony Bourdain
The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.Anthony Bourdain
Cooking is a craft, I like to think, and a good cook is a craftsman—not an artist.Anthony Bourdain