My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.

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.

Wasn't there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mississippi?

To sit down means to calm down without rush and fuss, stop and reflect, analyze all pros and cons, count all possible merits and faults

I am drawn to the mystery of marriage. You can never know what the contract is between two people, and that is a very strong subject. I think it may be my subject.

Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.

They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.

I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.

Who's to say who's an expert?

Meditation creates more time than it takes.

There are none so deaf as those listening to ‘All by Myself’ over and over and over again.

Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.