A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

Tell me what it is, or prepare to eat harpoon.

There's information about everything from poetry to pills, from picture frames to pyramids, and from pudding to psychology--and that's just in the P aisle, which we're walking down right now.

Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

Like most writers, I look back on all of my finished works with utter regret, and the trouble with writing a series of novels is that you have to go back and read them, and make sure that you haven't forgotten anything you've created, and then when you do that, you're faced with your own mistakes on every trick, from the wrong word in places to entirely the wrong incident.

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.