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

Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned [about other wi….

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..

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide,….

I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it..

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..

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed..

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money..

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

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that….

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better..

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough m….

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same….

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place..

My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before..

A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass..

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough ….

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite..

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war corres….

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 ….