Collecting Mania Quotes

I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.

A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.

When I get into collecting things, I get a little obsessive. Which is why when I start buying comics, I buy way too many, and I have to stop myself.

I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.

I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.

I buy hats like women buy shoes. I have well over 150.

I collect things that just look retarded.

Collections collect collectors. It doesn't work the other way around. A certain object misses its own kind and communicates that to some person who surrounds it with rhyming items; these become at first a quorum, then a selective, addictive madness.

Imagine someone so infatuated by a band that they have every different pressing of every album the band made. Most of the time, the only difference in the album is the matrix number or a different 'made in' notation on the back cover or label. This is enough to make some people extremely excited. Actually, much more than excited.