The More I Like A Book, The

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.

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

Paranoids Are The Only Ones Who Notice Things Anymore.

Travel Is Like Adultery: One Is Always Tempted To Be Unfaithful To One's Own Country. To Have Imagination Is Inevitably To Be Dissatisfied With Where You Live. There Is In Men, As Peter Quennell Said, "a Centrifugal Tendency." In Our Wanderlust, We Are Lovers Looking For Consummation.

The Contents Of Someone's Bookcase Are Part Of His History, Like An Ancestral Portrait.