Clifton Fadiman

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

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

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

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.