A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the philatelist's solitary gloating and the football fan's gregarious hysteria.

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.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the philatelist's solitary gloating and the football fan's gregarious hysteria.

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

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

Being a child is in itself a profession.

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.