Quotes by Clifton Fadiman

"… cheese, milk's leap toward immortality."

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

"My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat."

"As between mileage and experience choose experience."

"I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation."

"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."

"To feel at home, stay at home."

"To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history."

"The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest."

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

"A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial."

"A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover."

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

"By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one."

"The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech."

"There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves."

"When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before."

"Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly."

"Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality."

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