One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.

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

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

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.

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

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

Some friends of theirs had rented their house for several months to an interior decorator. When they returned, they discovered that their entire library had been reorganized by color and size. Shortly thereafter, the decorator met with a fatal automobile accident. I confess that when this story was told, everyone around the dinner table concurred that justice had been served.