Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.

A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it!

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

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

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

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