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

One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.

Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.

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

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.

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.

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.