“Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.”
“It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon...”
“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
“My statement to Harris that his book contains much to admire is specious hyperbole. In The End of Faith, Harris rails against religious fundamentalism, which seems obvious, as well as against religious moderates, which seems intolerant.”
“Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny. In this war, we know, books are weapons.”
“Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader’s senses”