In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations all start with a dream. Reading is where those dreams really can come true over and over again.

... when the Spaniards persecuted heretics they may have been crude, but they were not being unreasonable or unpractical. They were at least wiser than the people of to-day who pretend that it does not matter what a man believes, as who should say that the flavour and digestibility of a pudding will have nothing to do with its ingredients.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations all start with a dream. Reading is where those dreams really can come true over and over again.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.