“Like a butcher without a knife, a knight without a sword, and a farrier without a hammer, you cannot have a town without rules; if there were a town like that, a great big anarchy would reign there, just as in the realm of animals!”
“A town without a bookshop is a town without a soul.”
“We need knew knights, but without swords.”
“Towns [in the Midwest] with immigrants are growing. Towns without immigrants are shrinking. It's as simple as that.”
“Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.”
“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”