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

Forget that New Orleans is actually a little like the Combat Zone with French cooking, it still happens to be part of the great state of Louisiana where people play the political game the same way it's played in Lebanon. The place is one layer after another of tribes, factions and at least a million laughs.

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

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.

Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.

I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it.

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