A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
To educate myself, I had to understand everything. Starting with myself, me, Marji, the woman.
The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one's whole existence.
Love the great narcotic was the revealer in the alchemist's bottle rendering visible the most untraceable substances. Love the great narcotic was the agent provocateur exposing all the secret selves t...
It was a pity that most people didn't actually go to libraries anymore, not when they could sit in the comfort of their own quarters and access files electronically. Want to read the new hot interstel...
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applic...
Her presence had awakened in him a man suddenly whipped by his earlier ideals, whose lost manhood wanted to assert itself in action.
Every lover could be brought to trial as the murderer of his own love. When something hurts you, saddens you, I rush to avoid it, to alter it, to feel as you do, but you turn away with a gesture of im...
As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living ma...
And it is that which draws me to you, too, for you are the tropics, you have the sun in you, and the softness and the clarity...
Reading is the work of the alert mind is demanding and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other f...
If a book is worth reading it is worth buying.
The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.
The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.
I buy, collect and read books.
I run my fingers down the spines of old books and ancient tales. I smell the ink and feel the pages as I delicately peer at the words and paragraphs. Each book home to a story, giving its characters i...
The size of a book never matter as the size of wisdom in the book
Writing "Snugs the Snow Bear" was an exhilerating walk on a beach - I stopped now and then to study the rock pools, put my hand to my forehead, to gaze over the vast ocean, and the tide danced; played...
Friends are like books, you learn from every one of them.
If you are going to write a book,Make sure it is going to be worth reading .