Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
- Arnold Lobel

"The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." -HL Mencken

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines

"Someone's boring me. I think it's me."
-Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Rayner Heppenstall, Four Absentees (1960)

"There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil." -Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)