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.

...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 can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.

Some day, as soon as a book is printed it will be simultaneously put into digital form. That will be a wonderful research tool, but it will never substitute for holding the book. I feel certain that at least within my lifetime, everyone will still be going to the bookstore and buying printed books. Thank God I'll die before I have to worry about whether the printed book itself will disappear. That's something I don't want to live to see.

E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate.

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

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