The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
Anatole BroyardTwo people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.
Anatole BroyardWhen friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
Anatole BroyardA 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.
Anatole Broyard