Quote: 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. [Jim Bishop]
Quote: Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade. [Jim Bishop]
Quote: Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. [Jim Bishop]
Quote: A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day. [Jim Bishop]
Quote: 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. [Jim Bishop]
Quote: It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him. [Jim Bishop]
Quote: A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. [Jim Bishop]
Quote: Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future. [Jim Bishop]
Quote: I can look at [my books] with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough. [Jim Bishop]
Quote: Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18. [Jim Bishop]
Quote: The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story. [Jim Bishop]
Quote: The morning after a death, we learned an avalanche of goodies about the renowned, some of which persuaded the reader that he should have cultivated the deceased in life. [Jim Bishop]
Quote: A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And always, in the back of his head, there will be a dozen men and women he will never meet. And always, he will feel the poorer for it. [Jim Bishop]
Quote: At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly. [Jim Bishop]
Quote: A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. [Jim Bishop]