Jim Bishop Quotes

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds - a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.