Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.

People don't really read your books, they only say they do, to keep you from feeling bad.

....her life would be a giddy crossword, working down from some clues and across from others.

Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations

I’d volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.

Lesen, lesen, immer nur lesen und darüber die eigene erbärmliche Existenz vergessen!

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.

I won't read a book whose pages have been dog-eared, because I'm more of a cat person.