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

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.

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.

I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like, 'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.

You do need these people to go out on a limb for you, thinking you're right for a role rather than having box office numbers.

Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.

Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction

The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the mechanism of transparency.

Fire is the Sun unwinding from the tree's log.

We're prosperous enough that we can afford to have one in six able-bodied men of working age sitting at home playing video games.

You can do nice things for people all of the time and it's never noticed but as soon as you make one mistake it's never forgotten.

The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.

Like a tree that grows stronger with more branches and roots, you need to find more and more ways to be inspired.