Quotes from Harold Rabinowitz

Don Vicente, a monk of the Convent of Pobla in Aragon, murdered several collectors in order to get their best books;

I know no greater bore than the man who insists on lending you a book which you do not intend to read.

The fact that so many young men and women enter the teaching profession shows that there are still some people willing to scrape along on comparatively little money for the pleasure of following an occupation in which they delight.

What waits me on the shelves? I cannot guess, But feel the sure foreboding; there will cry A voice of human laughter and distress, A word that no one needs as much as I.