Anthony Bourdain on experience

Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.

Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don’t deserve to eat garlic.

America’s most dangerous export was never nuclear weapons or Jerry Lewis⁠—or even Baywatch reruns. It was, is, and probably always will be our fast-food outlets.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Mark Twain1835–1910

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Mark Twain1835–1910

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley1894–1963Texts and Pretexts (1932), p. 5