Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.