We Use Books Like Mirrors,

The Pleasure Of Jogging And Running Is Rather Like That Of Wearing A Fur Coat In Texas In August: The True Joy Comes In Being Able To Take The Damn Thing Off.

Of The Seven Deadly Sins, Only Envy Is No Fun At All.

While Reading Writers Of Great Formulatory Power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I Find I Can Scarcely Get Through A Page Without Having To Stop To Record Some Lapidary Sentence. Reading Henry James, For Example, I Have Muttered To Myself, "c’mon, Henry, Turn Down The Brilliance A Notch, So I Can Get Some Reading Done." I May Be One Of A Very Small Number Of People Who Have Developed Writer’s Cramp While Reading.

For Me Writing Is Foremost A Mode Of Thinking And When It Works Well, An Act Of Discovery

The Best Joke-tellers Are Those Who Have The Patience To Wait For Conversation To Come Around To The Point Where The Jokes In Their Repertoire Have Application.