My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.
My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.
There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn.
Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.
I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.
By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.
As between mileage and experience choose experience.
Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.
One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.
We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters . . .
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
Cheese -- milk's leap forward to immortality.
When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
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