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.

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

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

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

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

[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient acquaintances or permanent friends. They will stay as long as you like, departing or returning as you wish. Their friendship entails no obligation. Best of all, and not always true of our merely human friends, they have Cleopatra's infinite variety.

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly