I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it.

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.

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.

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.

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

No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.