Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
Clifton Fadiman

When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
Clifton Fadiman

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.
Clifton Fadiman

As between mileage and experience choose experience.
Clifton Fadiman

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
Clifton Fadiman

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
Clifton Fadiman

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