Live through it," Call said. "That's all we can do.

They say money kinda melts when you take it across a border.

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.

... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they are.

The older the violin, the sweeter the music.

I remember that the single most vicious letter I ever read was the letter Hemingway wrote Scribners when they asked him to give a blurb for From Here to Eternity. It's there, in the Selected Letters for all to read, an example of a once great writer at his very worst. I doubt that he ever forgave Scribners for publishing James Jones in the first place. War, as Hemingway saw it, belonged to him.

The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight.