Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.

Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come; it's a way of visiting an earlier self.

Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.

Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where our fleshed-out inner selves reside.

I am fatally attracted to all bookstores.

Books were in the world; the world was in books.

The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.