46 Quotes by Joe Queenan

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.

Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.

Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to read on the subway, or who do not want other people to see how they are amusing themselves, or who have storage and clutter issues, but they are useless for people who are engaged in an intense, lifelong love affair with books. Books that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on.

Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.

A friend tells a story about taking his ten-year-old son to a Jets game. The game was being played during a driving rain on a freezing cold day, and the Jets lost by twenty points to a team they were supposed to beat. As they headed toward the exits, the boy looked up, with tears in his eyes, and asked, 'Dad, why are we Jets fans?

I do not accept reading tips from strangers, especially from indecisive men whose shirt collars are a dramatically different color from the main portion of the garment.

Good books to not invite unanimity. They invite discord, mayhem, knife fights, blood feuds.

The problem with the English Patient is that to enjoy it, you have to be either English or patient.

I don't understand that, because nobody, like, 18 owns a house or a Lexus,