People who can be very good can be very bad too.

One must make one's own mistakes

There are some people who don't conform to the signals. An ordinary well-regulated locomotive slows down or pulls up when it sees the red light hoisted against it. Perhaps I was born color blind. When I see the red signal -- I can't help forging ahead. And in the end, you know, that spells disaster.

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.

It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.