There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

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

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 everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.