 By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one. |
| The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest. |
| A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. |
| Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly. |
| Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality. |
| Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. |
| As between mileage and experience choose experience. |
| For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. |
| When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before. |
| I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation. |
| My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat. |
| Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something. |
