Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

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

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.

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.