Jim Bishop

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

True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkenss, 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.

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.
Jim Bishop - New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959
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.

- Jim Bishop