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

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!

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.