Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners. - Robertson Davies

Padre Blazon was almost shouting by this time, and I had to hush him. People in the restaurant were staring, and one or two of the ladies of devout appearance were heaving their bosoms indignantly. He swept the room with the wild eyes of a conspirator in a melodrama and dropped his voice to a hiss. Fragments of food, ejected from his mouth by this jet, flew about the table. [p.201]

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Nobody ever reads the same book twice.