I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.

Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.

The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather fronts, international borders. There are interesting frictions and incongruities in these places, and often, if you stand at the point of tangency, you can see both sides better than if you were in the middle of either one.

My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.