For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
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.
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.
As between mileage and experience choose experience.
The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
To feel at home, stay at home.
I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.
Liquor is not a necessity. It is a means of momentarily sidestepping necessity.
Being a child is in itself a profession.
One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the philatelist’s solitary gloating and the football fan’s gregarious hysteria.
What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one’s own absurdity. It is the ability to understand a joke, and that the joke is on oneself.
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.
The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.
Muhammad Ali: Superman Don’t need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don’t need no airplane, either.