No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

My shitty book, no one is going to read, about a total asshole and a completely fucked up world.

A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are fatuous preservers of youthful looks