As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.

Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading old books.

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.