How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest