A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

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.

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

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