One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.
Clifton FadimanWhen you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
Clifton FadimanReading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.
Clifton FadimanSeriously, 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, talentโฆ 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.
Clifton Fadiman