Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

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.

That's what this country needs -- more books!

The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.