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

The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

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.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

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

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.