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

For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

If you want to feel at home, stay home.

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.

What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own absurdity. It is the ability to understand a joke, and that the joke is on oneself.

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.

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