Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.

Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

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

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.

Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

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.