A town that has no ceiling price A town of double-talk A town so big men name her twice Like so: 'N'Yawk N'Yawk.'
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.
A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third rib: there ought to be a heart beating in it. A story that's all forehead doesn't amo...
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.
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.
Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.
Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution ... is as far as possible to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices simply to do what you find yourself doing to...
They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind and it didn't seem to matter.
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas.
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti:it requires so much attention.
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.
That's what this country needs -- more books!
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires so much attention.
My theology briefly Is that the universe Was dictated But not signed.
If we all 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 tell them that they loved them.