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 a civilizing agent.

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.

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

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

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.

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat