I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

Those times, I tried to think of something happy, something I'd liked - but not something I loved, for that made it worse.

Reading keeps you from going ga-ga.

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

I never met a man half so true as a dog. Treat a dog right, and he'll treat you right. He'll keep you company, be your friend, and never ask you no questions. Cats is different, but I never held that against 'em.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

Do you arrange your books alphabetically? (I hope not.)