By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one

There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn.

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

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

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.