We Prefer To Think That The Absence

[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.

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.

We Are All Citizens Of History.

Wine Is Poetry In A Bottle.

Liquor Is Not A Necessity. It Is A Means Of Momentarily Sidestepping Necessity.