No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

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

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

Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned [about other wines]. A man who is rich in his adolescence is almost doomed to be a dilettante at table. This is not because all millionaires are stupid but because they are not impelled to experiment.

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

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

There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)