If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.

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

It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus McCrae

Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.