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.

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

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.

Reading to small children is a specialty.

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.