books

"Ausonius must be read to be believed! As poet, no subject is too trivial for him; as courtier, no flattery too excessive."

"V.Melnikov Books in the National Library of Vernadsky"

"There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Sev…"

"I've also grown weary of reading about clouds in a book. Doesn't this piss you off? You're reading a nice story, and suddenly the writer has to stop and describe the clouds. Who cares? I'm not interes…"

"James D. Watson Collection at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Library"

";You must shatter the vase to spread its perfume, and smite the rock to get the spark."

"The editorial, very poorly written for a college full of smart students, shows how far this “hate speech” cancer has spread. Let me provide for you Coyne’s Glossary for the words at issue:"

"Web exhibit at the Austrian Central Library for Physics"

"Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry."

"Johnny Cash Quotes Book"

"The Exile: sex, drugs, and libel in the new Russia, Google Books page"

"Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs; and when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with your brea…"

"There is a kind of second law of cultural dynamics which states simply that when anything has been done, it cannot be done again. In other words, we start off any system with a potential for novelty w…"

"It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later. Finally, it is…"

"Callimachus and Lycophron edited A. W. Mair at Google Books"

"All the cold-reading clairvoyants and the nonsensical astrologers and absurd ESP merchants and other such people who talk about vibrations and energies.... God, if there’s a word that drives me mad it…"

"When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting."

"I try to maintain a balance between having a vision of the world that many readers do not experience for themselves, trying to give them enough grounding in the world we are all familiar with, so they…"

"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

"Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people."