“The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.”

“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.”

“Surely it is more honourable to do great things, than to speak or read great things!…When a Christian has one eye upon his book, the other should be looking up to heaven for a blessing upon what he reads.”

“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”

“A book that one has not read yet is always more exciting than a book one has memorized.”

“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”

“Welcome to my library! Ever since my high school days, books and magazines have been to my mind what friends are in the flesh. Each and every one of these books and articles-- a fraction of the 12,000 volumes that I share my house with-- has contributed to expanding my dream.”

“Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.”

“Yes books are valuable. But not reading of books will take the place of a daily, candid, honest examination of what one has recently done, and what one is about to do - of a steady looking at one's self in the face”

“Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.”