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 merchandising rules as chewing gum.

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

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

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 where people play the political game the same way it's played in Lebanon. The place is one layer after another of tribes, factions and at least a million laughs.

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

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

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.