The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
“I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is.'”
“Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.”