“All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.”

“I am just now not reading but devouring Captain Mahan's book and am trying to learn it by heart. It is a first-class book and classical on all points.”

“Only two classes of books are of universal appeal: the very best and the very worst.”

“The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.”

“The book to end all books. The final book. After this, there is no more writing, no more publishing.”

“God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.”

“My book or some other book said the judge. What is to be deviates no jot from the book wherein it's writ. How could it? It would be a false book and a false book is no book at all.”

“Where is a book before it is born? Does a book grow like a tree? Who are a book's parents? Does a book need two parents -- a mother and a father? Can a book be born inside another book? And where is the parent book of books?”

“The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.”

“I cannot waste time in these classes and these books, memorizing the weak assumptions of lesser mortals.”