The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

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.

Tell me how much you know of the sufferings of your fellow man and I will tell you how much you have loved them.

...but I like who I became just fine. That's the way life is. We all try to make something out of our lives, and some of us are just luckier than others.

Just because something awful happens to someone else, it doesn't mean the issues in your life should take any less importance.

I am my own person. What I'm doing, I'm happy with it. I'm doing what I want to.

I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.

It's man's to fight, but heaven's to give success.

Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.

Canada is a live country - live, but not, like the States, kicking.

The more precious His gift, the more anxious God for its return.

The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.