“Book TimeWhen you findyourselfhungry againAnd there'snothing goodto eat--This is book time.Pull out a book--Sink your teeth into the thinkof it.”
“He couldn't seem to get his teeth into anything. Except books. The things in books was darn near more real to him than the things breathing and eating.”
“If you eat enough books, you start pooping out words.”
“It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life”
“You can't eat books, sweetheart.”
“A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.”