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."

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

"Not to cover the subject, but to uncover and isolate a part of it … is the aim of the aphorist"

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