“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

        — Robert Louis Stevenson

“Books are uniquely portable magic.”

        — Stephen King

“For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.”

        — Clifton Fadiman

“At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.”

        — Marshall Lumsden

“He was jeopardising his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”

        — Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“As user friendly as a cornered rat.”

        — Seen in a software review

“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”

        — Dwight Eisenhower