The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.

Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

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.