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.

Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

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.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

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