“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
“Some days we can see Venus in midafternoon. Then at night, stars separated by billions of miles, light traveling years to die in the back of an eye. Is there a vocabulary for this—one to make dailiness amplify and not diminish wonder?”— Kaveh Akbar, narrativemagazine.com