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

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 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.

News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows whither or for how long. Newspapers might employ these periods searching for the breeding grounds of news, but they prefer to fill up with stories about Kurdled Kurds or Calvin Coolidge, until the banks close or a Hitler marches, when they are as surprised as their readers.

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

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