Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. -- Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
-- Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. -- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
-- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children. -- Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.
-- Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999