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.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

The plural of spouse is spice.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.