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

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

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

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

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

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

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

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

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.

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

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.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

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.

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.

I was bullied from grade one to six. Even middle school was tough for me. Everyone had these pre-existing friendships, and I was the new kid, who was acting, so that didn't help much either. It was really tough.

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

I never go overbudget on my movies.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

I've never pretended to be a supermodel.

The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies.

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.

Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how we sense physical reality.

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

I would like to visit a dog's mind to know what he's thinking and feeling.

I just didn't lock into being in the right role in the right big movie and it going huge. I did never really make the leap to hyperspace. Who's to say that it can't still happen. I just enjoy working, and feel fortunate to be doing the things that I am doing.

There won't be any miracles. We never promised any. But as we have said before, when things are done properly, the results come in.

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.

Get more confidence by doing things that excite and frighten you.

In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.

I like real problems, the human condition - twisted, darker stuff.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the universe.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.