Ruefulness Is One Of The Classical Tones

We Are All Tourists In History, And Irony Is What We Win In Wars.

It Is One Of The Paradoxes Of American Literature That Our Writers Are Forever Looking Back With Love And Nostalgia At Lives They Couldn't Wait To Leave.

Two People Making Love, She Once Said, Are Like One Drowned Person Resuscitating The Other.

A Bookcase Is As Good As A View, As Much Of A Panorama As The Sight Of A City Or A River. There Are Dawns And Sunsets In Books - Storms And Zephyrs.

We Don't Simply Read Books. We Become Them.