A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.
We are all citizens of history.
Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.
Wine is a civilizing agent.
Reading to small children is a specialty.
A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.