A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.

What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.

Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.

The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader.

Why do we do so few when we can do so much?

Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow!

Desire may cease once the desired person or object is acquired. The desire of reading doesn’t cease once a book is read, however extraordinary this one was.

Life can be so unexpected and wolderful!

The material's out there, a calm lake waiting for us to dive in.

Basically, when it comes to women, both aging and eating are somehow shameful.

I’m glad she’s so smitten with her new huntsman boyfriend and all, but venison-wurst? Gag me with a harpsichord.

When I reap the rewards, I don't even know I'm reaping them.

The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

I always had this secret suspicion that I was special.

I get literally a physical sensation of low self-esteem that is a result of not engaging the world and getting comfortable that way.

I think everyone is given drama, by virtue of the fact that we all have drama in our lives, but not everyone can make people laugh.

Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.