[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
To conquer fear, you must become fear - you must bask in the fear of the BOOK... and men fear most what they cannot see- The Power of the Book is spiritual.
There is no truth without faith. Nothing is proven except to the heart of one who believes.
Those of little understanding say the world will soon end. It is the current age that is coming to an end. The end of this age is the beginning of the next.
The starvation of a child has no justification, even if the crops have failed, or the population is too large.
No crime is a means to an end. No crime can be rationalized.
A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining wh...
You just read your books and go on a hundred miles away, You ignore me.
When you're in my arms, I know you're mine. But your feet are so swift, so swift, they carry you as lightly as wings, I never know where, too fast, too fast away from me.
The fascination exerted by one human being over another is not what he emits of his personality at the present instant of encounter but a summation of his entire being which gives off this powerful dr...
Holding a precious book meant to Mendel what an assignment with a woman might to another man. These moments were his platonic nights of love. Books had power over him; money never did. Great collector...
George, if you ever break the spine of one of my books, I want you to know that you might as well be breaking my own spine.
Ali Baba protects the lovers! Gives them the luck of bandits, and no guilt, for love fills certain people and expands them beyond all laws; there is no time, no place for regrets, hesitations, cowardi...
A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translate...
If you would understand your own age read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true.
Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book!