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

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience..

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..

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior..

No ascetic can be considered reliably sane..

Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one..

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news..

There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yoursel….

The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant….

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

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….

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional….

Forget that New Orleans is actually a little like the Combat Zone with French cooking, it still happens to be part of the great state of Louisiana wh….

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….

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

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reac….

I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with spor….

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

Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlat….

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….

Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn..