“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”

“In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.”

“For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.”

“Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace”

“It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.”

“I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it.”

“There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.”

“I promise you, I will not be taking very long vacations, if I take them at all. There's no time for vacations. We're not going to be big on vacations.”

“I wish it were as easy to buy time as it is to buy good books.”

“Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon. com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos.”