An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.

The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies.

PeterSwirling dreamsDragons knewTouching life to winDeep inside many other worldsWhere should we begin?

Jace stood up, knocking his chair back violently. "You are not taking Clary to the Seelie Court without me and THAT is FINAL.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to a hundred.

[With Donald Trump] we are moving into an era where a lot of people get their information through tweets and sound bites and some headline that comes over their phone.

...impregnation will be regarded in an entirely different manner, more in the light of a surgical operation, so that it will be thought not ladylike to have it performed in the natural manner.

Losing a position is aggravating, whereas losing your nerve is devastating.

To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.

I think if you can take one or two things from a cookbook, it's successful.

I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.