No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.

A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

But the English are different, and they don't know how to be other than different.

A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae

I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.

Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out books from the place that should, by definition, be books' own home: the library.