“There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.”

“How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?”

“I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.”

“.. books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.”

“It takes some audacity for a non-economist to write a book about economics, especially if the book deals with one of the yardsticks of the profession, i. e., money.”

“People who prefer e-books… think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel.”

“The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that’s not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.”

“I never taught of book burning, no matter how they were silly, mendacious or propaganda-like because I guide myself by the principle that every book burning was just an introduction to burning (of people) at the stake.”

“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…”

“Pouring out liquor is like burning books.”