Look, I understand that inside me there is a greedy, gluttonous, lazy, hippie — you know? I understand that free time is probably my enemy. […] There’s a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed, and smoke weed all day, and watch cartoons, and old movies. I could easily do that. My whole life is a series of stratagems to avoid, and outwit, that guy.

— Anthony Bourdain in Sean Woods’s, Anthony Bourdain on Writing, Food, Adventure, and Finding a Calling, Men’s Journal, 2014