Si un libro es bueno, el escritor también ha de serlo. - James Salter

He nestles himself flat in the meeting of her buttocks. An excruciating douche.

...at a luncheon, I sat next to a green-eyed young woman, a poet, who declared loftily that you learned nothing from books, it was life you learned from, passion, experience. The host, a fine old man in seventies, heard her and disagreed. His hair was white. His voice that the faint shrillness of age. "No, everything I've ever learned,", he said, "has come from books. I'd be in the darkness without them."

He knew all the constellations. He had seen them rise in darkness over heartbreaking coasts.