Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others.

Su voz y las palabras de los otros, que salen como cascadas de los libros, no son para aprender nada, ni para ser más culta, ni para presumir lo leído. Es un bálsamo, una caricia, una medicina única y poderosa, un mensaje.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.