In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.

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.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.