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.

The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.

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

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.