We've Had Bad Luck With Our Kids

What Is The Virtue And Service Of A Book? Only To Help Me Live Less Gingerly And Shabbily.

Between Ourselves, There Is No Such Thing, Abstractly, As A 'good' Book. A Book Is 'good' Only When It Meets Some Human Hunger Or Refutes Some Human Error.

Living In A Bookshop Is Like Living In A Warehouse Of Explosives. Those Shelves Are Ranked With The Most Furious Combustibles In The World--the Brains Of Men.

Blessed Is He Who Has Never Been Tempted; For He Knows Not The Frailty Of His Rectitude.

Being In A Hurry Seems So Fiercely Important When You Yourself Are The Hurrier And So Comically Ludicrous When It Is Someone Else.