Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.