Bookpuddle

"Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything." -- Zadie Smith ...

If all the girls attending the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised. -- Dorothy Parker -- Have a great Frida...

Ahhhhhhhhhhh ! [Sound of me not working!] I am only one day into my vacation time, and believe me, I am loving it. So far the weather is gr...

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, ...

Our mania for defining things can be seen most clearly in the fact that the word “dictionary” is in the dictionary! -- Cipriano – Wheeee! I...

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home. -- James Thurber (1894-1961) – ...

To honor the teacher is a means of honoring the Way. Therefore, the teacher shall posess the justice that reigns between a ruler and his sub...

“It was a dark and foggy night…..” No, no, you will not see that kind of cliché sentence anywhere in Matthew Pearl’s latest novel, The Poe S...

The Trouble With Reading by William Stafford When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author agai...

Everything we look at, even if we can't see it, is a poem. The seagull in this photo, is a poem. Everything we feel inside, even if we c...

New York is big but this is Biggar. -- slogan for the town of Biggar, Saskatchewan, Canada. – Have a great Thursday!

But no one answers that request. It is impossible to have "MORE TIME". No one gets, "more time".... do they? I want mo...

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equal. -- Winston Churchill (1874–1965) – Have a great Wednesd...

Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which i...

And Yet The Books by Czeslaw Milosz And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings, That appeared once, still wet As shi...

HOLDUP MAN: → “Quit stalling – I said your money or your life.” JACK BENNY: → “I’m thinking it over.” Have a great Friday!

Dear Friends: Just popping in here to say that lately I've been totally worn-out. This is my excuse for being way less than interesting,...

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you und...

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.” -- Francis Bacon (1561...

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mi...