46 Quotes by Joe Queenan

"It can help protect the market in times of crisis. Instead of shutting down all trade, it helps you respond to the situation at hand."

"That's the thing that always gets me. We have to have football, because you reach young guys who drink beer."

"No artist has ever remained as consistently bad for such a long time."

"Taylor ushered in the poisonous concept of soft rock."

"No matter how much you improve something that is basically an unpleasant experience, it's an unpleasant experience."

"Collins is a bald, bland Englishman who writes interchangeably uninteresting songs."

"Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro."

"Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind."

"Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful."

"People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel."