Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.

A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

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.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.