“What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?”

“What better place than this? What better choice than us?”

“My feeling about the war was — given a choice between these two things — obviously I want to see a world with much better choices than that — but given that was the choice we were confronted with, the best way through it was to try to find out what Iraqis prefer.”

“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.”

“I deserve better than that, you know? I deserve… I deserve to be someone's number one girl."

"You are."

"No, I'm not. She is. You're still protecting her, her secret, whatever that is. From what, though? From me? What have I ever done to her?”

“If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, — and that is a book honestly come by.”

“There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.”

“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”

“I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.”

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”