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.

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

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

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.

Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

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