To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

The best thing we have is sleep, of course, and what is sleep except the putting aside of everything tentative for another interval of final and everlasting truth? Sleep isn't dying, but it is certainly keeping in tough with it.

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.