Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven

It is the Mass that matters.

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

Great is bookishness and the charm of books.

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

There is not shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.

I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do.

Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending ... no first beginning.

I have always hated the cinema.

Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.

I've always liked working on stories that combine people who are relatable with something insane.

I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a two-shilling piece to a bit of cotton, then pull it away as they went to grab it.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

I like to play the piano with lyrics as if it was a piece of love letter.