Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
I am on fire within. There comes no murmur of reply. What is it that will take away my sin, And save me lest I die?
The old Atlantean sciences from the tribe of enlightenment, of which there are only a few remnants and chards left in this world, were medicine, law, computers, and the performing arts.
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path are always idiosyncratic. One book leads to another and another the way one thought leads to another and another. My type of reader is the sort who burrows through the stacks in the bookstore or the library (or the Web site — stacks are stacks), yielding to impulse and instinct.