A. J. Liebling

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

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. ”

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

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. ”

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

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

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

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

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. ”