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

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.

A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

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

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.

Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.