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

A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

Name me any liquid — except our own blood — that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to mark our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist.

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

Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.

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.

Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either.