The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.

Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.