A.J. Leibling Is My Boy

"...I asked the waiter to recommend a small inn among the vineyards, where I might eat and drink well between long walks, or take long walks between heavy meals. Pedestrianism was always my balance for voracity; they were countervailing joys. Walking, I consumed what I had eaten, built up appetite for more, had noble thoughts, and spotted likely-looking restaurants."

From Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris , 1959

So comforting to find that something you thought was a sort of secret shame in yourself is a proudly espoused way of life in someone else, someone older, someone so New Yorker-ish.