To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. – Clifton Fadiman
When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. – Clifton Fadiman
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. – Clifton Fadiman
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. – Clifton Fadiman
Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis wont do. Its an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought. – Sir Peter Medawar