"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it."
— Groucho Marx

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. "
— Ernest Hemingway

""Death is like an old whore in a bar--I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her"
Earnest Hemmingway"
— Earnest Heminway (To Have and Have Not (A Scribner Classic))

"You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes."
— Hemmingway