“Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.”

“I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”

“I still have a fondness for books. Many a time I will be antiquing, and I'll say, 'What's that old-timey curio over there? What is that, a candlestick telephone, one of those old pull-chain toilets? Oh no, it's a book. I used to help make those things! I will buy it and use it to decorate my chain of casual family-dining restaurants.”

“The old dictum was backward. It should be "Better not tohave loved at all, than to love and have lost." I had done theright thing, I reassured myself. So why did it feel like I hadmade the biggest mistake of my life?”

“... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!”

“I just love the smell of an old book store and the feel of the crisp pages along my fingertips.”