The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, “Nothing is more important than an unread library.

The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller, and the size of the business.

Your love to me was like an unread book . . .

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

No one snaps our composure quite like someone we love.