“You can tell a lot about people from the kind of books they steal.”

“If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research”

“There's a lot you can't tell about people, looking in from the outside"-Hanna”

“If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.”

“What people are afraid of can tell us a lot about society.”

“Books can be passed around. They can be shared. A lot of people like seeing them in their houses. They are memories. People who don't understand books don't understand this. They learn from TV shows about organizing that you should get rid of the books that you aren't reading, but everyone who loves books believes the opposite. People who love books keep them around, like photos, to remind them of a great experience and so they can revisit and say, 'Wow, this is a really great book.”