A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

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

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

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.

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.