“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”

“The morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me.”

“Believe me, no one wants to finish this book more than me.”

“I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.”

“But I think the most important thing those books gave me was a kind of faith. My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workaday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”

“My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”

“All of humanity knows me. My name is in encyclopedias, in registers and databases. Books have been written; films recorded. I’m happy, I’m satisfied.”

“That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.”

“In my field, Wikipedia is more reliable than the text-books.”

“I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway”