115 Quotes About Collecting

This is true of all collecting. It extinguishes the moral instinct. The object finally possesses the possessor.

If you collect antiques, you’re celebrating the dawn of modern society. If you collect antiquities, you’re celebrating the the dawn of civilization. If you collect crystals, you’re celebrating the dawn of our planet.If you collect meteors, you’re celebrating the dawn of the universe.

To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.

Every new search is a voyage to the Indies, a quest for buried treasure, a journey to the end of the rainbow; and whether or not at the end there shall be turned up a pot of gold or merely a delightful volume, there are always wonders along the way.

On a good day, even writing can feel like a form of collecting—of gathering words, images, and ideas and arranging them in an order that feels right.

You can keep a piece of candy in its wrapper for up to twenty years. After that, it turns into a hideous black goo.

I call it guerilla TV.

Some nation states prohibit the police from collecting information on their own citizens. But they don't prohibit their own intelligence organizations from collecting information on their own citizens.

We're still collecting scientific data. I'm really surprised we haven't gone into emergency mode. This time last November, we were passing through this same zone, and we got clobbered.