“It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.”

“It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.”

“When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?”

“It is amazing how the brain will connect one thought to another until it gets to where it wants to be.”

“But usually, I watched Linda read. I couldn't believe she'd read so much in summer! Sometimes she laughed, reading her book, and one time she even cried. I didn't know how anyone could make such a big deal about books.”

“It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.”

“There are a large number of people in the room, but one is unaware of them. They are in the books. At times they move among the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”

“How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”

“How many lives we live in one,
And how much less than one, in all.”

“No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.”