Clifton Paul 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."

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

"For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."

"When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable."