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

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.

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

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

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

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

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.