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

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.

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.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

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

Reading to small children is a specialty.