“It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.”

“Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.”

“Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.”

“The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space. We are always at the beginning of the beginning of the letter A.”

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

“I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it.”

“… that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)”

“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.”

“Love and Loyalty, run deeper than blood." Love that quote even though I haven't read the book.”

“You've been reading Gordan's book again, haven't you?"
"It's a white-knuckle roller-coaster ride," she mumbled.”