“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”

“Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.”

“All of this made me feel better about myself, and I was grateful to the books for teaching me-without my even having to read them- that there were people in the world more desperate, more self-absorbed, more boring than I was. - about memoirs”

“Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.”

“And then when I got home I burrowed about among my books, arranging their volumes and loving the feel of them.”

“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.”