Christopher Morley

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

That's what makes it worth while – I'm doing something that nobody has ever thought of.

Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.

If we 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 stammer that they loved them.