No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands... that can do your brain.

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

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'?

I'm going to find whoever is responsible for me sleeping out side with outside without pillows and kick them in the shins!-Enna

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back

Only bad books have good endings.If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.

This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.

Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

No, Ben. What I’m asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben’s the driver, right?

CUSTOMER: If I were to, say... meet the love of my life in this bookshop, what section do you think they would be standing in?

Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.