Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures In The Culinary Underbelly Quotes

your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.

Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.

Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever

I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.

So I didn't have time to craft artful lies and evasions even if I'd wanted to.

He doesn't yearn for a better, different life than the one he has - because he knows he's got a home in this one.