“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”

“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”

“My greatest wish -- other than salvation -- was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.”

“Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.”

“I believe if you can have an open dialogue about anything, whether it's a book or a movie or TV show, it's this door that suddenly opens your mind to new ideas.”

“I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.”

“Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.”

“I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha!”

“I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book… I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem to me to be anything but offensive when I read it.”

“A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.”