Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talent… this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of eccentric technical tricks. The characters have no magnitude and no meaning because they have no more reality than a mince-pie nightmare.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

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

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