“Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.”

“Let's face it, if there were 10 people like me in the world, we wouldn't have time to read each other's books.”

“Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.”

“The Book had in a high degree excited us to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book.”

“If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, — and that is a book honestly come by.”

“"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.”

“I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.”

“I don't want no better book than what your face is.”

“I’d much rather pretend I’m
somewhere else, and any time I open
the pages of a book, that happens.”

“The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.”