Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.

We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.

Truth and Beauty (perhaps Keats was wrong in identifying them: perhaps they have the relation of Wit and Humour, or Rain and Rainbow) are of interest only to hungry people. There are several kinds of hunger. If Socrates, Spinoza, and Santayana had had free access to a midnight icebox we would never have heard of them. Shall I be ashamed of my little mewing truths?... I ask to be forgiven: they are such tiny ones.

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.