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

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.

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

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

What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own absurdity. It is the ability to understand a joke, and that the joke is on oneself.

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.