The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads... - Christopher Morley

"Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs."

"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."

"The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win."

"Act like you expect to get into the end zone."

"The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking."