“A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.”

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

“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

“An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.”

Clifton Fadiman

“Both the aphorism and the poem channel man’s wild impulse to escape the systems another part of him has so carefully constructed.”

Clifton Fadiman