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

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

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.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

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.