“To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.”

“I am not a collector of deserts!”

“It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.”

“She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique…”

“I never had much respect for the collector's mind.”

“And to emphasize the bad name Caesar had won alike for unnatural and natural vice, I may here record that the Elder Curio referred to him in a speech as: "Every woman's man and every man's woman."”
At ne cui dubium omnino sit et impudicitiae et adulteriorum flagrasse infamia, Curio pater quadam eum oratione omnium mulierum virum et omnium virorum mulierem appellat.

“Gather out of star-dust,
Earth-dust,
Cloud-dust,
Storm-dust,
And splinters of hail,
One handful of dream-dust,
Not for sale.”

“To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.”

“Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.”

“There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist—the taxidermist leaves the hide.”