I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.

Fact One: Cataract surgery is simple, painless and (except with implants) risk free ... the whole procedure is common, routine and nothing to worry about. Fact Two: Fact One applies only to cataracts on the eyes in somebody else's head.

But I don't know, maybe it's just as well I never got there. I dreamed about it for so many years. I used to go to English movies just to look at the streets. I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for. I said I'd go looking for the England of English Literature, and he nodded and said: "It's there.

I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.

What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?

Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.