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.

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

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.

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

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

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

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