Being a child is in itself a profession.

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.

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.

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

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