If you only read the books…

People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing. Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says to the waitress, “I’d like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream.” The waitress replies, “I’m sorry, monsieur, but we’re out of cream. How about with no milk?”

At the beginning of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee quotes Charles Lamb: “Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? Stephen Wright