My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.

If we discovered that we only had 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.

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

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.