"I lurched away from the table after..." - Quote by Anthony Bourdain

“I travel 250 days a year. There are chef friends who I only see every couple of years. By conventional standards I'm a bad friend. I'm not there to remember your birthday or to offer you words of support through Twitter. I'm not up on what you're doing in New York because I'm not in New York. I'm not what people call in parenting circles "present."”

“I am very much enjoying the fatherhood phase of my life.”

“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 pub.”

“My life has been the poem I would have writ,But I could not both live and utter it.”

“Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.”

“My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.”

“Early in my life I had made a pact with myself. I would never eat anything that moved when I cooked it, excited the dog, or inflated upon impact with my teeth.”

“I originate from a family where sauce is viewed as a refreshment.”

“How come when you mix water and flour together you get glue...and then you add eggs and sugar and you get cake? Where does the glue go?”