“I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call”

“This is a damn useless conversation. Goodbye. (Charles Goodnight to Woodrow Call)”

“i'd hate to read all these books...that much reading could put your eyes out.”

“It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus McCrae”

“You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae”

“Today the sight that discourages book people most is to walk into a public library and see computers where books used to be. In many cases not even the librarians want books to be there. What consumers want now is information, and information increasingly comes from computers. That is a preference I can’t grasp, much less share, though I’m well aware that computers have many valid uses. They save lives, and they make research in most cases a thing that’s almost instantaneous. They do many good things.But they don’t really do what books do, and why should they usurp the chief function of a public library, which is to provide readers access to books? Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn’t seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out books from the place that should, by definition, be books’ own home: the library.”

“It's like I told you last night son. The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight, he added”