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.

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

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

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat

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

We are all citizens of history.

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.