books

"Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]"

"Амьдрал гэж нэг иймэрхүү авсаархан ном байлаа гэхэд, санаандгүй сөхөхөд тааралдах тохиолдлын ганц өгүүлбэрт л уг номыг унших учир шалтгаан бүрэн шингээстэй бий."

"Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?"

"We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read."

"I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose."

"Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)"

"I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."

"She’d felt it before, she felt it now: the pull to fall in with him, to fall into him, to lose her sense of self."

"When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved."

"Books are a uniquely portable magic."

"Never Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can."

"Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand."

"Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life."

"The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win."

"Books, the children of the brain."

"Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read."

"For books are more than books, they are the lifeThe very heart and core of ages past,The reason why men lived and worked and died,The essence and quintessence of their lives."

"And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it any other way. Not that you weren't flattered, right? I mean, to have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and self-respect - well, that's trophy enough for any guy's ego, huh?"

"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book."

"A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way."