“Is this a book exhausted from too much reading? Or too little reading?”
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
From the fourth book, "The Book of Impotence"
The Pillow Book
“Ausonius must be read to be believed! As poet, no subject is too trivial for him; as courtier, no flattery too excessive.”
— Ausonius
Gore Vidal, Julian (1964), p. 11.
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