“What good is fantasy with no chance of reality?”
Source: The Massage Book 2: When Fantasy Becomes Reality: An Erotic Threesome Tale
“What fun is fantasy, if there's never a chance of reality?”
Source: The Massage Book 2: When Fantasy Becomes Reality: An Erotic Threesome Tale
“You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”
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“Like all collectors, I exist in a perpetual state of want that bears no reasonable relationship to the quantity of unread books mounting up on my shelves.”
Source: My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
“It is possible that the most misunderstood man upon earth is the collector of books…”
Source: Penny Wise & Book Foolish
“Man wants what he cannot have, or what is difficult to procure, or what he must wade through the blood of other men to get. So with collectors.”
Source: Penny Wise & Book Foolish
“Book-hunters are the most determined and interesting collectors in the world. I know of no passion to equal it.”
Source: The Master of Mysteries: Being an Account of the Problems Solved by Astro, Seer of Secrets, and His Love Affair With Valeska Wynne His Assistant
“I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came.
[Remarks at the Dinner for the America's Cup Crews, September 14 1962]”
“Jack, I'm going to tell you a story. A runner took a book to a famous dealer and said: 'I've got something rare here.' 'Yes,' replied the dealer, 'but customers who want it are rarer.'
Then my book is worth nothing?
Nothing whatsoever. It's a volume of old sermons, which in the trade are pretty well unsaleable. Your book is a first edition all right, and probably there never was a second, for obvious reasons.”
Source: Death of a Bookseller
“It’s a great metaphor. For what? I don’t know to this day. But I know it’s a great metaphor.”