Favorite Quotes

Bookcases are ways to show that you love to read....and keeps all your books
-Ikea

"Contrast is the first law of all art."


I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
-C.S. Lewis


The Way I See It #26
Failure's hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.
--Po Bronson


The Way I See it #5
What I look for in musicians is generosity. There is so much to learn from each other and share each other's music. Great creativity begins with tolerance.
--Yo-Yo Ma


Reason is the natural order of truth, but imagination is the organ of meaning.
-C.S. Lewis


What you see and here depends on a good deal on where you are standing, it also depends on what kind of person you are.
-C.S. Lewis


Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
-C.S. Lewis


With me poetry has not been a purpose but a passion.
-Edgar Allan Poe


Words have no power to express their mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
-Edgar Allan Poe


First one has to find such a book; then one has to recognize it for what it is.
-Larry McMurtry


A book man's love of books is a love of books, not merely the information in them.
-Larry McMurtry