Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

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.

The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

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

The plural of spouse is spice.

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.