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

I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'

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.

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

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

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.

Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.