“Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.”

“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”

“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”

“Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.”

“Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.”

“if some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. events, not books, should be forbid.”