To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. – 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
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
Life is a chaplet of little miseries, which the philosopher unstrings with a smile. Be philosophers as I am, gentlemen; sit down to the table and let us drink; nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin. – Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers (1844), “Chapter XLVII: A Family Affair,”