“Here beneath the towering pines, by the river blueFarragut will ever stand, alma mater true”
“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
“An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.”
“What is it that brings me here to stand like a rock in this river of sound?”
“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
“The nurses did their best to spruce up the antiseptic corridors but the smell of pine boughs was overpowered by Pine Sol and no one paused beneath the mistletoe on the contagious ward.”