“She loaned him books. Worlds were revealed to him: worlds piled on worlds, worlds without end.”

“She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.”

“The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.”

“The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.”

“He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.”

“Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away.”

“The CHILD must know that he is a MIRACLE, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world will not be, another child like him.”

“Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.”

“To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.”

“She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.'
'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?”