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

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

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.

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.

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

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

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.