The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.

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.

How fate is stubborn and holds to habit.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

The world doesn't pay you for what you know, it pays you for what you do.

I am convinced, completely convinced, that there was nothing random about [the adoption], she is the daughter I should have.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

The Bahamas is headed for unprecedented economic activity.

A life that is planned is a closed life, my friend. It can be endured but it cannot be lived.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

I think my mother, more than anyone, knew the importance of inspiration. If it was occurring, you had to use it.

An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.