Cliff Fadiman

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

Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

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

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.