A 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.

For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.