If You Want To Feel At Home,

To Read In Bed Is To Draw Around Us Invisible, Noiseless Curtains. Then At Last We Are In A Room Of Our Own And Are Ready To Burrow Back, Back To That Private Life Of The Imagination We All Led As A Child And To Whose Secret Satisfactions So Many Of Us Have Mislaid The Key.

I Tried To Use The Questions And Answers As An Armature On Which To Build A Sculpture Of Genuine Conversation

[books] Will Visit You At Your Convenience, Whether You Are Lonesome Or Not, On Rainy Days Or Fair. They Propose Themselves As Either Transient Acquaintances Or Permanent Friends. They Will Stay As Long As You Like, Departing Or Returning As You Wish. Their Friendship Entails No Obligation. Best Of All, And Not Always True Of Our Merely Human Friends, They Have Cleopatra's Infinite Variety.

We Prefer To Think That The Absence Of Inverted Commas Guarantees The Originality Of A Thought, Whereas It May Be Merely That The Utterer Has Forgotten Its Source.

A Man Who Is Careful With His Palate Is Not Likely To Be Careless With His Paragraphs.