Read at whim! Read at whim!

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone.

The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.