Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman (May 15, 1904 – June 20, 1999) was an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality. Read full biography of Clifton Fadiman →
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
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.
Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.
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.
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman (May 15, 1904 – June 20, 1999) was an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality.