“Books, I found, had the power to make timestand still, retreat or fly into the future.”

“I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.”

“It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.”

“Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.”

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”

“Nothing is as far away as one minute ago”

“Not fault of teaching spider if little spider pay more attention to catching fly than doing lesson.”