I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it.

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.

You are judged more by what you do passively than by what you do actively.

If you deprive your mind from positive thinking, it would in return starve you from positive living.

A ship on the port always waits for you to sail to the oceans!

it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

I think Uma Thurman is one of God's creatures, one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen.

Personally, I do movies the way I cook. I put in what I like, in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.

Hair is what connects women in Dakar and Detroit, Oprah [Winfrey] and Opal [Tometi] the Black Lives Matter activist. There's a story in every kink, curl, and coil.

Sometimes you just wish you could make a film and then have it on DVD so you can see your mom. But, no, I've never really had that moment. Not really. Not seriously.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.

Prayer is the only adequate way to multiply our efforts fast enough to reap the harvest God desires.