No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

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.

Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.

My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.

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

Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.

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