Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.

Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

Oscar Wilde

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Proverb

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

Carol P. Christ

The most classic horror tale of this latter type is the Old Testament story of Job, who becomes human Astro-Turf in a kind of spiritual Superbowl between God and Satan.

Stephen King

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Mahatma Gandhi

Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Michel de Montaigne

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

Roger McGuinn

In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage.

Paul Prudhomme

Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

English Proverb

I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way,' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.

Harry Connick, Jr.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

Henry Bolingbroke

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Mahatma Gandhi