Jean Pigozzi Quotes

I've always been a collector at heart.

Collecting is my passion.

I'm a collector of everything.

Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.

I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.

I collect all kinds of things.

I guess I always have been a collector.

I've been an avid collector since I was a child.

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

Ever since I was a child, I've kept boxes and drawers and pages of things that I liked. I suppose that it constitutes a journal of sorts, but it's not in a ledger or a notebook.

I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.

I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.

Well, my parents were sort of packrats. They never threw anything away and, all through their time together, they stored away various things in a vault.

If you're going to collect things because you think they have value, then don't collect. For me, you have to be obsessed, and there has to be something educational.

As a kid growing up in California, I collected autographs.

I'm kind of like one of those people that picks up small and interesting bits of wood and doesn't want to let go of them. Or, you know, I'm fascinated with the wrapper on a sardine can. A little cuckoo.

Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.

What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has been, in any moderate degree, healthy or peaceful)? That rich charm, which the least possession had for us, was in consequence of the poorness of our treasures.

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

I was collecting Barbies. I know... embarrassing. I sold them all on eBay, and traded them for vintage dishes. So I've collected two things.

I felt like my bubble gum card collection had come to life.

I'm a collector - I collect everything. I can't throw things away. For some reason I think I'm going to need tiny wooden teddy bears with their arms hacked off.

You would open a drawer, which my father had jammed full of newspapers, and the bottom would drop out. There were buttons and screws and nails and bottle caps and jar lids – the drawer of jar lids! Why? Because they're made of metal and maybe there'll be another war and we'll need the metal. A friend of mine – I quote him in the book – says, 'You have found the source of the river eBay.'