We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

The world is full of small ignorances. We must all do our best to ignore them and thereby keep them small, don't you think

Life does often get in the way of one's reading.

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

Passion is all very well, but it wouldn't do to spill the tea.