Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.

I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.

Tragedy alters everything.

Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.

Reading can be dangerous.

Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.

What better place to kill time than a library?