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

“I am not a collector of deserts!”

Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…

“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.”

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (1911–1983) British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer

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

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

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

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

“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.

Sueton book The Twelve Caesars

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

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

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

Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist

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

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)

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

Mortimer Caplin (1916–2019) Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service; prominent tax attorney; benefactor:University of Virginia