Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the...

Books are the immortality of the race, the father and mother of most that is worth while cherishing in our hearts. To spread good books about, to sow them on fertile minds, to propagate understanding...

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Laughter and prayer are the two noblest habits of man; they mark us off from the brutes.

New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City.New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle;Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness….There is no hope for New Yorkers, for...

If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti:it requires so much attention.

New York, the nation’s thyroid gland.

That’s what this country needs — more books!

A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third rib: there ought to be a heart beating in it. A story that’s...

When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life.

There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way.

When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships...

We have all sorts of conditions of booksellers: one is fanatic on the subject of libraries. He thinks that every public library should be dynamited. Another thinks that moving pictures will destroy the book trade....

In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Life’s a lot different from what people pretend. That’s why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness of my own that made such queer things happen. Now I’m beginning to...

nessuno come un cane sa apprezzare la straordinarietà della tua conversazione.

There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul needed and he never knew it. – Roger Mifflin

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world–the brains of men.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.