Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better.

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness.

This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library ... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is O ye gods give me whatever is fitting unto me!

Maybe I should drive a hybrid. I do have a shirt that says, 'Go Green.'

A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.

I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?

A fop sometimes gives important advice.

History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he thereby invests with a deeper reality.

I've pretty much kicked over every stone. And there's nothing in me that says, "I must create this particular thing."

The conflict is not between Christianity and Islam or between East and West - instead, it is between stupid people and other stupid people.

In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.