books

"...live dangerously; take things as they come; dread naught, all will be well."

"So many read good books and get nothing, because they read them over cursorily, slightly, superficially."

"One challenge for me is in remembering what the process of writing the novel was like. For me, it’s a bit like childbirth in that one forgets the pain as soon as it’s over…"

"letter to Joaquín Ferrer, 20 December 1825; as quoted by Robert Hughes, in: Goya. Borzoi Book - Alfred Knopf, New York, 2003, p. 393"

"Bert Williams at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library"

"You look like you’re ready for bed!"

"..before being hypnotized, she could not distinguish the capitals in the advertising columns of a newspaper. After being hypnotized, however, she could, in a few minutes, see to read the large and sec…"

"All information services are ultimately based on library methods and materials."

"The Federal Cases, Book 30 comprising cases argued and determined in the circuit and district courts of the United States"

"With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one — but no one at all — can tell you what to read and when and how."

"I turned around and saw the crease on the bed where Camilla had been seated, the sensuous contour where her thighs and hips had sunk beneath the softness of the blue chenille bedspread. then I forgot …"

"When you are reading a book in a dark room, and come to a difficult part, you take it to a window to get more light. So take your Bibles to Christ."

"The more unconscious individuals, groups, or nations are, the more likely it is that egoic pathology will assume the form of physical violence. Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in…"

"The John Byrom Collection, Chetham's Library"

"To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations — such is a pleasure beyond compare."

"The thesis of this book is simply that Greek and Hebrew civilisations are parallel structures built upon the same East Mediterranean foundation. ...the evidence is so abundant that our problem is one …"

"Access to Insight: Readings in Theravada Buddhism"

"Sailing is an escape, it’s an adventure. As I kid I was always reading books about adventure, about being outside. It was always something I wanted to do and the first time I went sailing on my own, o…"

"It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of 'laws' to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it."

"Obituaries: Ilya Prigogine from SIAM News, Volume 36, Number 7, September 2003"