Zitat des Tages von A. J. Liebling:
The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
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.
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
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.
If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
