Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

I enjoy sharing my books as I do my friends, asking only that you treat them well and see them safely home.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.

Art books are filled with interesting images. And that’s cool and all, but I look more for the nudes.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries,hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.

So How Much of a THING or THINGS is Enough? And if you have EVERYTHING, have you achieved perfect HAPPINESS?

I decided long ago that life's absurd. If you don't develop a sense of humor, it will drive you mad.

Das war ein Vorspiel nur; dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen."(Almansor)

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.