One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings - Christopher Morley

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim.

It's one of the uncanniest things I know to watch a real book on its career — it follows you and follows you and drives you into a corner and makes you read it.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.