Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
The older the violin, the sweeter the music.
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.
A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.
It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.
The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form of ranching; instead of herding cattle, I herd books. Writing is a form of herding, too; I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.