For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either.

Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.

A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

As between mileage and experience choose experience.