“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”

“I tell you one thing I did used to like: the fish and chips. But I stopped eating fish this year. One day I just felt the death in it.”

“Dear Miss Manners: What is the proper way to eat potato chips?
Gentle Reader: With a knife and fork. A fruit knife and an oyster fork, to be specific. Good heavens, what is the world coming to? Miss Manners does not mind explaining the finer points of gracious living, but she feels that anyone without the sense to pick up a potato chip and stuff it in their face should probably not be running around loose on the streets.”

“… Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.”

“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.”

“A scholar is like a book written in a dead language — it is not every one that can read in it.”

“In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.”

“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…”

“[Harry, talking about the doctor who came to the ward and then went away. ] "That guy has a thing about potato chips and hot dogs. If God didn't want us to eat salt and fat, why did He make them taste so good?"”

“It is also possible for a woman to go back to a man’s room, tell him she doesn’t want to have intercourse, mean it, start kissing, have intercourse, and then wish she hadn’t in the morning. How? Kissing is like eating potato chips. Before we know it, we’ve gone further than we said we would.”