"For a moment, or a second, the..." - Quote by Anthony Bourdain

“Writing anything is a treason of sorts.”

“We learn as professionals by repetition, by getting it wrong, getting yelled at and doing it again.”

“The way you make an omelet reveals your character.”

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

“When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.”

“I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.”

“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.”

“One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.”

“Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.”