Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

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.

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.

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

The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

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