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.

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.

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

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

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.

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