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

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

- Jim Bishop

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

- Jim Bishop

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 flee…

- Jim Bishop

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

- Jim Bishop

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

- Jim Bishop

Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building…

- Jim Bishop

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 ag…

- Jim Bishop

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 e…

- Jim Bishop