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 money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

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.

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, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

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 money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

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

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