Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality. - Clifton Fadiman
One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best. - Clifton Fadiman
A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs. - 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
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. - Clifton Fadiman
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. - Clifton Fadiman
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. - Clifton Fadiman