“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.”
“I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?”
“That's what this country needs -- more books!”
“I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.”
“And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.”
“I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.”