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.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

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 belongs to the man who owns one.

I can write better than anyone who can write faster.