"My idols of that time had been, all too predictably, Hunter Thompson, William Burroughs, Iggy Pop, and Bruce Lee; I had had, for some time, a romantic if inaccurate view of myself as some kind of hyperviolent, junkie Byron. My last semester at Vassar, I'd taken to wearing nunchakus in a strap-on holster and carrying around a samurai sword - that should tell you all you need to know."
- Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential