It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.

...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.

Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.

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

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

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

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.