There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good.

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when books are burned the ultimate in tyranny has happened. This we cannot forgive.

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.

There is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter.

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.