I Should Prefer To Die Laughing, And,

The Problem For Me Is That Reading Is, I Won't Say A Sacred, But Nevertheless A Pretty Serious Act.

High Standards Generally -- About Workmanship And Creation Of Objects, About What Is Owed In Friendship, About The Quality Of Art And Much Else -- Far From Being Snobbish, Are Required To Maintain Decency In Life.

Many Moons Ago Dictionaries Of Quotations May Have Been Less Needed Than They Are Today. In Those Good/bad Old Days, People Walked Around With Entire Poems And All The Shakespearean Soliloquies In Their Heads.

Courage Is Nine-tenths Context. What Is Courageous In One Setting Can Be Foolhardy In Another And Even Cowardly In A Third.

I Know From The Middle Distance I Give Off The Look Of Being Prolific, Which Is A Funny Compliment To Receive.