The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king.

A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.

Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.

Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been.

A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.

The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.

Your life will be rich for others only as it is rich for you.

Books fall open, you fall in.

The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.

Life is a garment we continuously alter, but which never seems to fit.

But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.

It does not matter where you are standing right now, what matters is where you are headed to.

Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.

I wish I would have had more to do in the film. I hated to get killed so soon.

Confidence in nonsense is required.

Nature and wisdom always say the same.

If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.

We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary privilege and adventure of anthropology.

You do not have to marry in order not to be alone- all you need not to be alone is to have some other humans to be your companions and close friends.

I want to be loved. Oh, it's SO CORNY, isn't it?! But I just want to be loved by a bloke that loves ME! I want to feel special, you know. I almost feel guilty for feeling it.

I have a lot of endurance and I have a good background right now in my training and it's time to get ready.