“A closed mouth gathers no feet.”

“What seems clear to me,' Karl Wertheimer joined in, 'is that Eli Black believes in the myth of the artist. This is a myth that holds that everything must be sacrificed for art. It may not be a foolish myth if one is, say, Michelangelo or Beethoven. But if one is less than that then the myth of the artist is very destructive, sadly so for people who become too closely involved with him.”

“A closed mouth gathers no feet.”

“A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a book taken from the shelf and held in the hand is a magical experience, linking writer to reader.”

“We are what we think, having become what we thought.”

“Of all the seven deadly sins, only Envy is no fun at all.”

“That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services.”