The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them.
Anatole BroyardTwo people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.
Anatole BroyardThe contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
Anatole BroyardA bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.
Anatole Broyard