No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

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.

When we will learn to see, not you and me, but only we, then there will be peace in this world.

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities.

I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter, ' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.

The thing that's nice about pregnancy is that in the end, you have a baby.

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

I will read anything rather than work.

What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.