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

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.

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.

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

To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.