There isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes.

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.

Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.

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

Through my college years, topping that ridge had always given me a great sense of being home, but time had diminished the emotion and I had begun to suspect that home was less a place than an empty page.

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

-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.