Bookworm

Gardner, H.:
"...not only is it false to think that a human being can do anything, but where everything is possible, there are no guidelines about what ought to be attempted and what not."

Larsen:
"Fire is one of the most dangerous enemies of wood preservation." [REEEEEEEEEEEEEEALLY?]

Nora:
"Memory has been promoted to the center of history: such is the spectacular bereavement of literature."

Young:
"After all, while the victors of history have long erected monuments to remember their triumphs, and the victims have built memorials to recall their martyrdom, only rarely does a nation call on itself to remember the victims of crimes it has perpetrated."

Young:
"Where is the tradition for mea(morial) culpa"

Carruthers:
"Not in the manner of a parrot (which, reciting mindlessly, never knows "where it is")"