Christopher Morley

"Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty ye…"

"There is only one success … to be able to spend your life in your own way."

"It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way."

"April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go."

"We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul."

"The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning."

""Lord!" he said, "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 humour and ships at sea by night —…"

""Poetry," said Shelley, "lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar." This, if you substitute 'absurdity' for 'beauty,' is also a go…"