We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up. - Christopher Morley

Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness of my own that made such queer things happen. Now I'm beginning to guess that everybody's like that.

Sometimes I thought Truth had vanished from the earth,” he cried bitterly. “Like everything else, it was rationed by the governments.

The beauty of being a bookseller is that you don't have to be a literary critic: all you have to do to books is enjoy them.