“ Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something. Clifton Fadiman
“ One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance. Clifton Fadiman
“ When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. Clifton Fadiman
“ There are two kinds of writers - the great ones who can give you truths and the lesser ones who can only give you themselves. Clifton Fadiman
“ The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food. Clifton Fadiman
“ The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst. Clifton Fadiman
“ Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew. Clifton Fadiman
“ 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. Clifton Fadiman
