“'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book.”
“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.”
“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
“Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.”
“Books don't need batteries.”
“We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries.”