Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.

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.

Hope gives happiness.

There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie, " Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.

What we spend, we lose. What we keep will be left for others. What we give away will be ours forever.

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.

We makeup artists are a unique bunch of people; we don't have the classic brain, the classic training, but we're creative, so we figure it out.

When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.

The task [in Afghanistan] is to reduce civilian casualties while still not hesitating to respond to enemies who are trying to kill our soldiers.

Universe to each must be All that is, including me. Environment in turn must be All that is, excepting me.

Love ice cream. I let myself have that about once a week. Vanilla.