We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.