Not Every Novel That Wants To Be

Most Of My Childhood Revolved Around Wondering When We Would Be Blown Up By The Russians. I Couldn't Stand The News, I Knew That If The Missile Were Launched, Mortality Would Arrive In Half An Hour, So I Spent A Lot Of My Childhood Feeling That I Was 30 Minutes From Being Dead.

Your Sons Weren't Made To Like You. That's What Grandchildren Are For.

A Bookstore Is One Of The Few Places Where All The Cantankerous, Conflicting, Alluring Voices Of The World Co-exist In Peace And Order And The Avid Reader Is As Free As A Person Can Possibly Be, Because She Is Free To Choose Among Them.

I Discovered That The Horse Is Life Itself, A Metaphor But Also An Example Of Life's Mystery And Unpredictability, Of Life's Generosity And Beauty, A Worthy Object Of Repeated And Ever Changing Contemplation.

Trollope Wrote So Many Novels And Other Works That They Tend To Crowd Each Other Out.