For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.

~ Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde Abstract Collect Collections Ideas Obsolete Phrases Terms Words

If I could store lightnings in jars, I'd sell them to sick fireflies to light their way. Only they have nothing to pay for it with but life.

~ Will Advise

Will Advise Ability Bugs Collection Collections Fireflies Firefly Health Insects Jar Jars Life Light Lightning Nothing Purchase Purchases Sickness Storage Way

I really admire people who don’t need to live surrounded by lots of stuff. My bedroom is piled up with clothes and books, papers and photographs. I like to collect things, anything I can grab from wherever I’m travelling. I think it’s the sign of slight anxiety to always want something around you to represent a good moment you had, to hang on to the leftovers. But then they’re a pleasure to look at too, so it’s not all negative.

~ Isabelle Huppert

Isabelle Huppert Anxiety Collections Library Lifestyle Past

Ephraim found a stack of postcards tied together with a faded green ribbon. He shuffled through them and found they were from every World's Fair from 1915 in San Francisco to 1939 in New York. None of the postcards hed been written on or mailed.

~ Megan Frazer Blakemore

Megan Frazer Blakemore Collections New York Past Postcards San Francisco World S Fair

The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.

~ David Sedaris

David Sedaris Place Next Collections

On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.

~ Eva Herzigova

Eva Herzigova Milan Collections