To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.

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.

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

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

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

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