Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.

For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.

A 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.

There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you.