When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and h… - Christopher Morley

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 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.

That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits, they walk and walk around me. There's only one way to lay the ghost of a book, and that is to read it.

He was willing to wait until the last dollar was broken: in the meantime he was content. You never know the soul of a city, he said, until you are down on your luck. Now, he felt, he had been here long enough to understand her.