“Erudition, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.”

“And weave fine cobwebs, fit for skull
That's empty when the moon is full;
Such as take lodgings in a head
That's to be let unfurnished.”

“The Captain's fore-arm like buncht-up rope,
With Anita wrigglin' free onto skull n' dagger,
And a portrait of Christ, nailed to an anchor,
Etched into the upper…”

“All books are merely delayed dust.”

“It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book… it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt…”

“Gather out of star-dust,
Earth-dust,
Cloud-dust,
Storm-dust,
And splinters of hail,
One handful of dream-dust,
Not for sale.”

“I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation…”

“.. holding a book but reading the empty spaces.”

“If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?”

“Beppu (n.)

The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.”