No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words.

Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS

The stories she'd read of others' lives over these last few months had left her with a greater appreciation for the thread of her own life.

Only because books are better than people, Father. ... Because they are masters who instruct without a rod. If you approach them, they are never asleep; if you are ignorant, they never laugh; if you make mistakes, they never chide. They give to all who ask of them, and never demand payment. ... All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, if God hadn't provided us with the remedy of books.

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.