A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. – Jim Bishop
He dropped pejoratives like subliminal seasoning. – Jim Bishop
Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18. – 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 ago. – Jim Bishop
When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets? – Jim Bishop
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day. – Jim Bishop
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
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. – Jim Bishop
Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons. – Jim Bishop
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. – Jim Bishop
