The Moment A Book Is Lent I

There Was A Time When We Expected Nothing Of Our Children But Obedience, As Opposed To The Present, When We Expect Everything Of Them But Obedience.

I Remember A Table In Barchestertowers That Had More Character Than The Combined Heroes Of Three Recent Novels I've Read.

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

The Tension Between 'yes' And No', Between 'i Can' And 'i Cannot,' Makes Us Feel That, In So Many Instances, Human Life Is An Interminable Debate With One's Self.

Aphorisms Are Bad For Novels. They Stick In The Reader's Teeth.