Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart.
Literature is impossible, in exactly this sense: every new generation has so much 'catching up' to do that the real choice that presents itself soon is the following one: one either spends ones entire...
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
I find it quite intriguing that the one observing me as different, immediately assumes that there's something wrong with me, but never, not even for one instant, questions the possibility of the oppos...
I've never understood the desire for books with matched bindings. You don't go through life looking for sets of matched people, and books are just as individual.
Reading makes me feel like I've lived a thousand lives in addition to my own.
I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,If one be better with them or without,Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed,Knows the high art of what and how to read.
Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.
The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.
If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books ar...
the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.
Paradise will be a kind of library
When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
Only dead surpasses the sufferings
Anger does not change the fact. The will to take control is everything.
You have strength born of years of grief and anger... The strength of a man denied revenge.
The great lie that science has given us is that reality is material.
Justice is paramount. The new judgement is the justice of the hidden time.
Did not the souls also of the righteous ask question of these things in their chambers, saying, "How long shall I hope on this fashion?" when cometh the fruit of the floor of our reward?
There shall be confusion also in many places, and the fire shall be oft sent out again, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and menstruate women shall bring forth monsters: