To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own absurdity. It is the ability to understand a joke, and that the joke is on oneself.

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

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

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.