我甚至有個異想：有生之年永遠不需要買車。這願望卑微得有點不可思議，但願我不是在異想天開。

馬來西亞的實體書店就像鄉下的公立診療所，勉强可以應付輕度的戀書症患者，一旦面對書痴、書淫之類的，往往就無能爲力。嚴重戀書症患者若要自救，只能保外就醫。而在這網路無遠弗届的時代，最好的醫療管道，當然就是越來越大，已經對實體書店構成巨大威脅的網路書店了。

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice....

...because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

~Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

優秀書話提供人們的除知識、史實以外，還有盎然趣味。書話終於可以登上散文的殿堂，關鍵在於作家的見識高低和趣味的優劣。

－－姜德明