More and more I lived in books, they were my comfort, refuge, addiction, compensation for the humiliations that attended contact with the world outside.

Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.

The library made me feel safe, as if every question had an answer and there was nothing to be afraid of, as long as I could sort through another volume.

All I'm saying is that there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because maybe they're even more important.

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.

You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to be evidence of some serious problem, right?

It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've finished this, I shall recommend they ban it.

And every book, you find, has its own social group - friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in a library that need never, ever end.

Books to the ceiling,Books to the sky,My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea - for the cool interior of the well-built house, and for the never-ending wonders of the many books.

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.