We are all citizens of history.

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

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.

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