If a secret history of books could be written and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story how many insipid volumes would become interesting and dull tales excite the reader!

Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is to a landscape artist not only a plant - rare unusual ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color a shape a volume or an arabesque in itself.

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.

Success breeds volume and it's just amazing how many young writers artists and musicians there are in town.

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day year after year alone.

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.