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.
Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
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.
Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.
If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs