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

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it.

News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows whither or for how long. Newspapers might employ these periods searching for the breeding grounds of news, but they prefer to fill up with stories about Kurdled Kurds or Calvin Coolidge, until the banks close or a Hitler marches, when they are as surprised as their readers.

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.