Journalist

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.