Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be… - Christopher Morley

That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read.

Poetry is like an unexpected noise in the night: the creak of a door, a footstep on the porch, the soft scuffle of a moth against the screen, which rouses every sense to an instant alert. So comes poetry to the drowsy mind, which startles a moment, wonders, and returns to sleep.

A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third rib: there ought to be a heart beating in it. A story that's all forehead doesn't amount to much.