Carl

“I like to stack them up on the shelf and move them about and rearrange them according to new parameters-height, color, thickness, provenance, publisher, author's nationality, subject matter, likelihood that I will ever read them. Then I put them back the way they were.”
― Joe Queenan, One for the Books

“He used books the same way he used alcohol: to pretend that he was not here, and if he was here, that he was happy for a change.”
― Joe Queenan, One for the Books

“At long last, I felt a sense of accomplishment and a sense of closure. In the secret places of my very small heart, I had long entertained dreams of coming back in my next life as a moron.”
― Joe Queenan, Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile's Pilgrimage to the Mother Country

“Library events scare me, as they provide refuge for local historians, fabulists, tellers of tall tales, historical reenactors, and even dream weavers. Not to mention the single most feared creature on the planet: the self-published poet”
― Joe Queenan, One for the Books