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

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

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

Reading to small children is a specialty.

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

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 only reason for being young is to outgrow it.