Clifton Fadiman

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

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

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

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

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

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

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

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

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

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

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.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.