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To feel at home, stay at home.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn't know you knew.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

Wine is a civilizing agent.

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

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

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.

Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

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

Being a child is in itself a profession.

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye,
particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

Liquor is not a necessity. It is a means of momentarily sidestepping necessity.

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.

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.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

[Wine is] poetry in a bottle.

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.

We are all citizens of history.

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

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

Don't be afraid of poetry.

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.

Reading to small children is a specialty.

The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.

Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either.

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.