“Finnegans Wake is not a book to read, but a book to decipher:”

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

“It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books…”

“You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.”

“Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.”

“…only then did I wake out of the book.”

“She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.”

“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”

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

“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”