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.

To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause.

When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

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

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