Christopher White > Christopher's Quotes

“What hath night to do with sleep?”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

“And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”
― Cherie Priest, Dreadnought

“Maybe the grass is greener on the other side depends who was standing in it. Sometimes you have to go over there and look.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins