My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

Tamburlaine's house seemed more a place where books kept their people than where people kept their books.

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.

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

Every book is a revolution. Books are our ticket out of boredom, despair, loneliness—but also ignorance.

The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

‎'He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

It's a great blessing if one can lose all sense of time, all worries, if only for a short time, in a book.

I can’t talk you out of what your heart is set on. I just hope you set it on the shelf, next to my book.

In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!

Dis-lui que les livres ont la puissance que leur accorde leur lecteur et que celle-ci peut être sans fin.

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.