There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

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.

Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness.

Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing.

My friend, God wants to throw a beam of light on your path today.

The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.

To what do I owe the pleasure?

God is the most important thing in our lives. I suppose that's true of everybody's lives, whether or not they want to believe it.

For the past couple of years I was doing the party thing - going out a lot. But now I've turned 25, I feel I'm an adult.

It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.