Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.
The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.
If you want a reliable tip, drive into a town, go to the nearest appliance store and seek out the dishwasher repair man. He spends a lot of time in restaurant kitchens and usually has strong opinions about them.
The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).
Cheese steaks are the gastronomic icons of this ethnic city.
At lunchtime the place is jumping, while at night the dining rooms could have been rented out for chess tournaments.
Never eat Chinese food in Oklahoma.
So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make a model of the world that is not imprisoning. That's why, second to psychedelics, I think travel is the most boundary-dissolving, educational enterprise that you can get mixed up in.
The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.
Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.
I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves. ' At that point, I would have done an insurance commercial. I would have done anything.