I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
The business of books is the business of life.
All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.
Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.
Give what you can, take what you need.
I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.
I'll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be.
We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out.
Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death. . . before they breed more hemophiliacs.
We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.