“Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.”

“She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.”

“Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.”

“There will always be people like me, who believe that to ripple the pages of a printed book is a special experience, one that through the centuries has taken millions from the darkness into the light.”

“An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.”

“You can’t study human nature in books. Books is a hindrance more than anything else. p. 25”

“She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.”

“There's soknowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.”

“Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.”

“Go on. Treat me like the page of a book. Your book.”