As between mileage and experience choose experience.

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

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.

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.

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.

A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.