“I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.”

“Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.”

“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.”

“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”

“Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.”

“Books of the avant-garde either establish themselves as books of lasting value, or they slip from the rear guard into the discard, and I believe the writers I mentioned have not proven trivial.”

“Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.”

“I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.”

“They're dangerous people, and what's really frightening is that they don't know it, they don't see themselves as dangerous… they see the danger elsewhere. The danger is always elsewhere. How convenient.”

“Books make dangerous devils out of women.”