I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation

If you want to feel at home, stay home.

Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.

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.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

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

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.