As between mileage and experience choose experience.

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

To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.

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

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.

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