“A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.”
―Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Monday, January 30, 2023
A Touch of Humor
“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”
― Groucho Marx
Friday, January 27, 2023
A Touch of Humor
“I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them."
"Unfortunately," said Hodge, "we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
Thursday, January 26, 2023
A Touch of Humor
“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
A Touch of Humor
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
A Touch of Humor
“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit