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.

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.

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

One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.

The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.

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.

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