"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."

"In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."

"People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness."

"I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation."