I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about…

I've probably got about 300 books. I love collecting books.

— Adriano Zumbo

I love collecting; my joy is finding private press American or European home studio electronic music from the 60s and 70s.

— Keith Fullerton Whitman

I think the best thing that I collect is memories. I love traveling; I love remembering stuff, my family, my daughter, my wife. I…

— Jaime Camil

My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks.

— Wolfgang Puck

I love collecting things from auction - we Brits really are hoarders and collectors.

— Jonathan Anderson

I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.

— Hamish Bowles

Instead of collecting things and staying in one space, I want to collect experiences.

— Kesh

...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

— Mitch Albom

I don't know who had the training of you," he continued doggedly, "but your morals are shocking. You spent a night in my bed,…

— Loretta Chase

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was…

— Alan Ritchson

My real first job was delivering newspapers with I was 15. I would ride my bike around and chuck papers at people's houses. The…

— Dane Cook

I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to…

— Jacques Lipchitz

If you're feeling fancy free, come wander through the world with me, and any place we chance to be, will be a rendezvous. Two…

— Henry Mancini

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

— Martin Parr

I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again.

— W. G. Sebald