"such a shocking start - mother's ashes...."

"As life is twice as much fun to us as it is to the man [?] - I give us us this as gross understatement..."

"and more, and more love, moving through time; always..."

"With all the appropriate Christmas sentiments & some of my own (very nice ones)"

"Read aloud to Ben"

"I thought I would leave the above dedication on. It gives it the correct sense of passing good things on..."

"You've stood up for me when I was in trouble and I won't forget that, ever..."

"... Obedient, we admire / Galleries of dead poets, great and small..."

""We met when you were my dead wife...""

"I love you standing up, sitting down, but most of all horizontally..."

"Now that I have trimmed my moustache I thought this book may be useful..."

""...for I was Shakespeare's countryman and were you not my friend?""

""Time past and time future are perhaps both present In time present. Or the converse. Wotever.""

"Not today Satan..."

"I got this book because on our 2nd date you mentioned that Lolita was one of the books that you kept lending to other people and they never returned it back to you..."

"here is a book for you to throw out of the window..."