“Some people collect stamps, while I collect letters. My favorite ones are the rare ones, like Q and X.”

“Normal people have rock collections, shell collections, key ring collections and stamp collections. (The Captain had even known somebody with a letterbox collection.) But a people collection? That had to be the most bizarre one he'd come across. Not to mention the most unethical.”

“More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.”

“Radicalism,like stamp collecting,has its time and place.Perhaps,it is useful in one's youth,but you have to move on.”

“Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.”

“Some people collect stamps or beer mats; Mum collected waifs and strays, cats, dogs, frogs, people, and as she believed, a whole host of "little people." Had she been confronted that night with a lion,she'd have made the same comment "The poor thing.”