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

Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.

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

You can miss a lot by sticking to the point.

I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.

...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.