A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.
One’s first book, kiss, home run is always the best.
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.