Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

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

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.

Achieving success is hard staying successful is even harder.

When you’re very young and you’re different, you begin to believe that no one has ever been as different as you and that no one has ever felt that difference as keenly as you.

Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point.

were under the very erroneous impression that we had money. Of

I know only enough of God to want to worship him, by any means ready to hand.

There were some feelings you never forgot.

You can only offend me if you mean something to me.

I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.

No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.

I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to survive.