"I do my very best to avoid..." - Quote by Anthony Bourdain

“You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter how good your cameras are, how well it's edited, there's no way the lenses could have captured the moment, and there's no way you will ever be able to write about it and do it justice.”

“Look, getting bullied in school and coming home crying in the rain and my mom making me a can of Campbell's Tomato Soup with some oysterettes. It was comfort food; that is what food should be.”

“Good food does lead to sex. As it should. And in a perfect world, good music does too.”

“That would be cool if you could eat a good food with a bad food and the good food would cover for the bad food when it got to your stomach. Like you could eat a carrot with an onion ring and they would travel down to your stomach, then they would get there, and the carrot would say, It's cool, he's with me.”

“I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.”

“There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.”

“No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.”

“For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.”

“There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.”