“Students didn't even read books anymore, thought Arthur. They dispensed with design and layout and cover art and illustrations and reduced reading to nothing but a stream of text in whatever font a...”

“Books are best preserved in the minds of readers.”

“Clothes were to Sylvia what books were to me: the only thing that really mattered.”

“I finally found my way to the Really Restricted Section, where they keep the kind of books most scholars aren't even supposed to know exist. I knocked on the closed door, said the proper passwords,...”

“A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.”

“Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure.”

“A life without books is like body without a soul.”