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.

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.

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

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.