"My family is very far from normal...." - Quote by Anthony Bourdain

“I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful.”

“You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.”

“My love of soft, runny cheese - it's impossible to resist.”

“My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year.”

“I serve dinner in three phases: serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead.”

“...but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if she gave him life she can take it away and if he feels that withdrawal it will be the grave itself.”

“A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.”

“There's something not normal about you if you're writing a book about yourself, or about anything. And if you're the kind of person who can deal with being recognized by strangers and if that's tolerable or pleasing to you, and not immediately terrifying, that's not normal either.”

“To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.”