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.

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

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.