It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.

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.

Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.

Good writing is good writing, whatever form it takes and whatever we call it.

Do not be afraid to fall, be afraid to to land... For no one has ever died from falling they have died from landing instantaneously.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

Dreams don't have an expiration date.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.

Do just one thing every day in the direction of your dreams.

Some ghosts haunt you for life. The best you can do is make room on the couch and get used to living with them.

Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.