“No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.”

“Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.”

“After much research I've found the secret to publishing: Write excellent books. Write lots of them.”

“[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.”

“I held it out and Caleb took it. This was the first book he had held in his hands. He made me smile, opening it upside down and back to front, but he touched the pages with the utmost care, as if gentling some fragile-boned wild thing. The godliest among us did not touch the Bible with such reverence as he showed to that small book.”

“Until you opened it, the book was nothing that an untrained eye would look twice at.”

“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”