I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

I can write better than anyone who can write faster.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

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

No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

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