“A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.”

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”

“Her areas of expertise are bar codes, book titles and maps - she has an original Parker Brothers map of the world.”

“One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.”

“There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter — the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. ...Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion. ”