When I First Wanted To Be A

A Bee Rose Up From A Sun-filled Paper Cup, Off To Make Slum Honey From Some Diet Root Beer It Had Found Inside.

I Like Shelves Full Of Books In A Library, But If All Books Become Electronic, The Task Of Big Research Libraries Remains The Same - Keep What's Published In The Form In Which It Appeared.

Printed Books Usually Outlive Bookstores And The Publishers Who Brought Them Out. They Sit Around, Demanding Nothing, For Decades. That's One Of Their Nicest Qualities - Their Brute Persistence.

Each Decision - To Kill, To Sign A Petition, To Write A Letter, To Make A Speech, To Attack, To Lie, To Surrender - Was Made At Some Point In Somebody's Day.

Updike Was The First To Take The Penile Sensorium Under The Wing Of Elaborate Metaphorical Prose.