I'm a solitary sort, I get chaffed by too many elbows.

- Louis Bayard

Well, as to that, all I'll say is, you can't take out a fellow's heart before he's ready to give it up.

- Louis Bayard

Here was the thing about traveling down an uncharted river: You could only say how long you'd been traveling; you could never say how long it would b…

- Louis Bayard

I'm a man of a certain age - old enough to have been every kind of fool- and I find to my surprise that the only counsel I have to pass on is this: N…

- Louis Bayard