She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts.
Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.
To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking forbidden thoughts they will have to cut off our heads.
There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.
For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was at a Holiday Inn buffet in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1973.
Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.
For where books, for instance, always offer a thousand times more than they are, television offers exactly what it is, its essential immediacy, its ever-evolving, always-in-progress superficiality.
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!
What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
My idea of a fun night was diving into a massive pile of To Be Read pile of books stacked near my dresser... I was the girl who loved everything geeky.
I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.
Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.
It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.
Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones." Adm. Fitzwallace
It's an election year. We would prefer that voters didn't use common sense.
The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global
