A. J. Liebling

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

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

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

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

A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

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

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

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