The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities.

Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.

It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way

Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.

Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.