Christopher Morley

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”

“New York, the nation's thyroid gland.”

“A town that has no ceiling price, A town of double-talk; A town so big men name her twice, Like so: 'N'Yawk, N'Yawk.'”

“We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.”

“Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution ... is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself...”

“Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.”

“No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires so much attention.”

“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”

“If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved...”

“If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved...”

“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.”

“My theology, briefly, Is that the universe Was dictated But not signed.”

“There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

“There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

“Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”

“There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.”

“When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all...”

“There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”

“That's what this country needs -- more books!”

“The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.”