Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival

How do you explain to a nonreader that books aren't just things but treasured friends? Companions?

There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all.

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

Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.

Sempre gostei de procurar livros, não quero saber onde estão, basta-me saber que existem.

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.

There ain't nobody in the world like book people. It's a business of gentlemen and gentlewomen.

Lord, deliver us from what we already knew we wanted. Give us some new desires, the weirder the better.

Books keep and reciprocate our secrets, dreams, regrets, and hopes better than any friend in the world.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.