books

"Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again."

"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

"Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today."

"Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them."

"Sometimes I think books are the only friends worth having."

"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..."

"The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She liked the combined smell of worn leather bindings, library past and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass."

"Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time."

"The wise man reads both books and life itself."

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

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."

"I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the embers of the last copy."

"By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle."

"A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there's no guarantee that you will enjoy it, or that it will have a happy ending. Kind of like going out with a girl, having to spend time every day with her - with absolutely no guarantee of nailing her in the end. No thanks."

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"

"A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to."

"Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort."

"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."

"Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace."

"Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city."