Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.

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.

Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

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

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

Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either.