“Like cancer, depression has an agnostic disregard for success, wealth, or talent.”— Lori Silverbush, medium.com
“Anthony Bourdain was the first to call out the bacchanalian oblivion of his past as an escape from darker, sadder truths hidden within the folds of his complex psychology. He was an aware and thoughtful soul who rejected those very archetypes he felt his success had helped to encourage.”— Lori Silverbush, medium.com
“In these current circumstances, one must pick a side. I stand unhesitatingly and unwaveringly with the women.”— Anthony Bourdain, thecut.com
“Maybe, if we’re gonna remember Bourdain for one thing, it’s that open-hearted curiosity and humility, a willingness to be a perpetual student of the world, committed to using his platform to reveal the complexity and beauty of the human experience, one bite at a time.”— Cooper Fleishman, melmagazine.com
“A great storyteller is one who makes you want to experience stories for yourself. A great story is one that makes you think, 'I wonder what it would be like to do that.'”— Christine Byrne, medium.com
“He welcomed the process of holding himself accountable; he welcomed the opportunity to put his own behavior under a critical lens and declare it lacking and change it accordingly.”— EJ Dickson, menshealth.com
“No one saw more of the world more clearly than Anthony Bourdain, and the awful tragedy is that the one thing he may not have seen clearly was his own irreplaceable contribution.”— David Klion, thenation.com
“It is neither a failure of character nor an indicator of a genius mind to contemplate suicide.”— Sara Benincasa, medium.com
“He wore those contradictions well, and that was part of what turned him into the face of enlightened masculinity. His fearlessness was not toward war and violence — it was in lifting up the victims.”— Miles Klee, melmagazine.com
“Anthony Bourdain lived so much that the idea of him dying seems completely preposterous.”— Drew Magary, gq.com
“The great sensitivity to pain was part of what made Tony who he was. I don’t want to go into the world without him.”— Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, mspmag.com