Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practical. Everything there is to know about a given volume may be only a click away, but there are still a few of us who'd rather have the book than the click. A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call

Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.

Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it