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.

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it.

HE wants you to feel HIM in any possible way you can, but you lazy bird, come on, make a step and you will feel all you got to feel.

With the discipline of the body comes discipline of the soul.

When you arrive at the destination, never forget where the journey began.

all men are the same age.

Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

I want to be involved in a story that makes a difference.

As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.

I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.