Journalist Quotes

"The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions."

"I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause."

"I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat."

"It's sort of my job to feel good."

"I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course."

"I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible."

"The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much."

"I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about."

"My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have."

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

"People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."

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

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

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

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

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

"The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational."