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.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

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

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

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.

In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.