Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians.

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

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.

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.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.