You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.

Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.