The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

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.

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.

On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.

Its circumference was tiny, but he had a life, and he would not give it up.

Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.

From your defeat shall be your victory

An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me.

If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never be as rewarding, and you probably won't be able to go as far.

One service to need heals an ancient wound.

You're learning to be nourished by the love you give, not by the validation offered in response to your giving.

The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?