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If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.

I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.

Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming.

I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.

If the books are selling, the money will follow.

At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Read my lips: no new taxes.