A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.

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.

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talent… this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of eccentric technical tricks. The characters have no magnitude and no meaning because they have no more reality than a mince-pie nightmare.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.