I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to 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.

Every one wants to be a Genius. But only the brave choose to go mad to get there...

Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody anywhere anytime.

I love to swim for miles I could just go back and forth.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

When I was in the House for 16 years, I caucused with the Democrats.

I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.

The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.

Columbia is ... for people whose genitals still work, dammit. For writers who want to be brave and persevere in the real world where people often fail.

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.