If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

You can miss a lot by sticking to the point.

...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.

I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about holding a book - the smell and the world of association. Even when e-books are perfected, as they surely will be, it will be like being in bed with a very well-made robot rather than a warm, soft, human being whom you love.

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.